Ideas of Vision in the «Comentum Super Dantis Aldigherij Comoediam» by Benvenuto da Imola

The work is devoted to the study of the main of the five senses presented in Dante's "Divine Comedy" —— i.e. vision, its understanding and role in the poem. The main subject is the problem of perception and dissemination of knowledge about vision through the study and interpretation of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante's early commentators. The author selected the comment of one of the most interesting people of his time —— Benvenuto da Imola. Benvenuto's life and his writings allow us to get acquainted with the academic world of Italy in the fourteenth century and see how literary studies have emerged. In the course of the work, various subjects related to the functions of the visual ability of the Dante-pilgrim, in the interpretation of Benvenuto da Imola, as well as the sources that influenced his Comentum are discussed.