Article: Dante as piagnone prophet: Girolamo Benivieni's "Cantico in laude di Dante" (1506).(Dante Alighieri)(paradise, politics, and poetry)(Critical Essay)

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The 1506 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy is the only Florentine production of the complete work between 1481 and 1595. (1) Like its 1481 predecessor with its tour-de-force of patriotic and allegorical interpretation by Cristoforo Landino, the 1506 edition appears to have an agenda of civic promotion at its heart. However, its frame implicitly exalts nor a Medicean and mythologized Florence, but one favorably influenced in the intervening 1490s by Girolamo Savonarola's zealous call to radical repentance, the copious weeping for which earned his followers the designation piagnoni. What is striking is how the work's editor articulates this new civic ...

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