Dante’s Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005

Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante’s Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a ‘comedy’ within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso .