Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola
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Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply Benvenuto da Imola (1320? – 1388) was a lecturer at the University of Bologna best-known for his commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy.
Born in Imola, he knew Boccaccio and followed his lectures on Dante at Florence.
Charles Eliot Norton considered that Benvenuto's commentary on Dante had "a value beyond that of any of the other fourteenth-century commentators".[1]
[edit] Works
- Romuleon, a compendium of Roman history
- A commentary on Virgil's Eclogues (Bucolics) and Georgics
- His commentary on the Divine Comedy, Comentum super Dantis Aligherii comoediam
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ James Turner, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, 1999, ISBN 0801871085, p. 181
