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people whom we did not know before. It has been pleasing to hear from readers in this country, England, and Australia who have enjoyed our English-speaking Dante. And two of them were not only appreciative, but helpful. Professors of law Clayton Gillette (NYU) and Stephen Morse (Pennsylvania) paid for their enjoyment of
Inferno
by reading the penultimate drafts of
Purgatorio
and of
Paradiso
and sharing their questions and comments with us; we are deeply grateful to both of them, in part for demonstrating to me exactly why I have always used the adjective “lawyerly” (as in “a lawyerly argument”) in a positive sense. Finally, I would like to acknowledge those graduate students who worked with me on this
cantica
, first in 1980 (Carolyn Calvert Phipps, Micaela Janan, Albert Rossi, Stephen Rupp, Alex Sheers) and then in 1986 (Sheila Colwell, Roberta Davidson, Martin Elzinga, Frank Ordiway, Lauren Scancarelli Seem). I hope that their memories of those seminars glow half as bright as mine.
    Gerald Howard, in addition to his more significant titles and duties at Random House, has been our editor for some years now. It was his support that made publication of our work possible and his continuing clear-headed and keen-eyed editorial supervision that has helped keep the project on an even keel. And we are grateful as well to all at Random House and Anchor Books (including three former students of mine at Princeton: Rakesh Satyal, Alice Van Straalen, and Anne Merrow) who have taken such obvious pleasure in their association with this project.
    27 November 2005 (Hopewell)
    This first Anchor edition has some sixty changes in the translation, some thirty in the commentary, and six additions to the bibliography.
    30 January 2008 (Hopewell)
    This second edition includes some dozen changes in the translation and some fifty in the notes.
    18 January 2012 (Hopewell)

TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS & LIST OF COMMENTATORS
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    1.  Dante’s works:
Conv.
Convivio
Dve
De vulgari eloquentia
Egl.
Egloghe
Epist.
Epistole
Inf.
Inferno
Mon.
Monarchia
Par.
Paradiso
Purg.
Purgatorio
Quest.
Questio de aqua et terra
Rime
Rime
Rime dub.
Rime dubbie
VN
Vita nuova
Detto
Il Detto d’Amore
(“attributable to Dante” [Contini])
Fiore
Il Fiore
(“attributable to Dante” [Contini])
    2.  Commentators on the
Commedia
. These seventy-three texts are all currently available in the database known as the Dartmouth Dante Project ( http://dante.dartmouth.edu ). Dates, particularly of the early commentators, are often approximate. The order followed here is that found in the DDP, which at times seems to violate chronology, and sometimes does so, in order to keep various versions of the same commentator (e.g., Pietro Alighieri) or teacher and pupil (e.g., Trifon Gabriele and Bernardino Daniello) next to one another.
    Jacopo Alighieri (1322) (
Inferno
only)
    Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli (1324) (Latin) (
Inferno
only)
    Jacopo della Lana (1324)
    Anonymus Lombardus (1325[?]) (Latin) (
Purgatorio
only)
    Guido da Pisa (1327) (Latin) (
Inferno
only)
    L’Ottimo (1333)
    Anonimo Selmiano (1337) (
Inferno
only)
    Pietro Alighieri (1) (1340–42) (Latin)
    Pietro Alighieri (2) (1344–55[?])
    Pietro Alighieri (3) (1359–64[?])
    Codice cassinese (1350–75[?]) (Latin)
    Chiose ambrosiane (1355[?])
    Guglielmo Maramauro (1369–73)
    Chiose cagliaritane (1370[?])
    Giovanni Boccaccio (1373–75) (
Inferno
I–XVII only)
    Benvenuto da Imola (1380) (Latin)
    Francesco da Buti (1385)
    “Falso Boccaccio” (1390[?])
    Anonimo Fiorentino (1400)
    Filippo Villani (1405) (
Inferno
I only)
    Giovanni da Serravalle (1416) (Latin)
    Guiniforto Barzizza (1440) (
Inferno
only)
    Cristoforo Landino (1481)
    Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
    Pier Francesco Giambullari (1538–48)
    Giovan Battista Gelli (1541–63)
    Benedetto Varchi (1545) (
Paradiso
I & II only)
    Trifon Gabriele (1525–41)
    Bernardino Daniello (1547–68)
    Torquato Tasso (1555–68)
    Lodovico Castelvetro (1570)
    Pompeo Venturi