Abstract
Abstract In 1481 the Landino edition of Dante's Divine Comedy was published in Florence. It is significant that it did not appear in Venice until ten years later. Dante did not become as dominant a figure in Venetian culture as Petrarch. As opposed to the speculative but rigid Florentine attitude towards certain philosophical schools and doctrines, the most prominent of which being the Neoplatonic circle around Ficino, Venetian culture and science at the close of the fifteenth century were characterized by a readiness to embrace and absorb a variety of traditions and forms ofknowledge. Venetian culture and taste were wide ranging; and this is best illustrated by the remarkable men who gathered at the Academy around Ermolao Barbaro.1
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