Discovery of the true Dante or new principles of Dantesque criticism

Abstract

Translation of Vico’s writing Discovera del vero Dante ovvero nuovi princìpi di critica dantesca a proposito del commento d’un anonimo alla «Commedia», from the edition carried out by Fausto Nicolini in Vico, Opere, Riccardo Ricciardi, Milan-Naples, 1953, pp. 950-954. The footnotes as well as the final note where all of Vico’s passages on Dante are collected are by Nicolini, whose way of citing we have kept unchanged.