Esploratrice dei percorsi dell'invenzione. Maria Corti lettrice di Dante

The essay is focused on Maria Corti's contribution to the study of Dante, as an author of poetry - especially La divina Commedia - but also as "father of the Italian language", in his De vulgari eloquentia and certainly not there only. Many different levels of Dante's works are considered: his language, his various metalinguistic contributions, mainly on grammar at its different stages - on metaphor, on what can just be suggested or merely alluded, eventually his tremendous culture and originality