"O cinquecento, e cinque, e diece guarda": a riddle poem and Dantesque mosaic (1). From: Italica | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Alfie, Fabian | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Association of Teachers of Italian. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Scholars have extensively researched the reception of Dante's works in the Quattrocento. Vittorio Rossi lists the following fifteenth-century works as demonstrating Dante's influence: Matteo Palmieri's Citta di vita, Marino Jonata's Anima peregrina, an untitled work by Bartolomeo Gentile Fallonico, Cecchino Alberti's visions, and Ser Bastiano d'Antonio Foresi's Libro chiamato ambizione (257-62). Few of the above texts, however, were written in the milieu of fifteenth-century Floren...

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