DANTE ALIGHIERI Y LA EPÍSTOLA A CANGRANDE - UN DEBATE DE DOS SIGLOS

The article titled "Dante Alighieri and the Epistle to Cangrande: A Two-Century Debate" aims to outline the complex history of an issue that, from the philologist Scolari to the latest contributions of artificial intelligence, marked important milestones in the valuation given to Dante's work from countless exegetical approaches. It could even be asserted that this epistolary reference encompasses most of the interpretive lines arising from Dante's complex body of work, including the Divine Comedy, and is offered as a touchstone to verify intuitions, achievements, and openings that have yet to be resolved in the vast landscape currently available. The inquiring path is focused on the analysis of the following controversial points: dating of the epistle, balance between adherence to authorial canons and that originality that excludes possible plagiarism, sectoral considerations of the document in relation to the different positions of its commentators, examination of the statistical methodologies applied to the different components - looking first at the cursus -; an inherent problem in the end. Through such fragmentation, which always refers back to the relevant literature, it is not surprising to note how even the artificial intelligence programs recently developed to address the problem leave it, in fact, unresolved, due to precise technical limitations and subjectivities that have not been eliminated so far.