Il Dante di Mario Marti

The essay investigates Marti's activity as a dantist, identifying three cores or ways of his long loyalty to our greatest poet: Dante's entry into politics as a key to understanding the realistic turning point of his poetry; the construction of the numerous lecturae Dantis by Marti around the search for an unitary topic, albeit in binary dialectics, in each canto of Divine Comedy; the activity of Marti reviewer, thanks to which the Salento critic directed the debate on many points of Dante's poetry.