Dante, Boccaccio e il canone letterario di Simone Serdini da Siena (il Saviozzo) : nota a margine del sonetto La gloria, la facundia e melodia

The article focuses on Simone Serdini’s sonnet La gloria, la facundia e melodia, usually regarded as a straightforward celebration of Dante’s Comedy as a model for Italian poetry, in order to investigate the presence of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante in Serdini’s rime. In particular, it aims to assess the function of the sonnet in the development of the Italian literary canon between the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries by discussing its role in establishing the cult of Boccaccio’s works in the vernacular as a model for Italian literature in prose a century before Pietro Bembo wrote his Prose della volgar lingua.