Un Dante domestico e amabile: Walter Landor e il suo dialogo immaginario tra Dante e Gemma Donati

In the context of XIX Century Britain's search for the "everyday" and the "domestic" Dante, this article focuses on the diametrically opposed interpretations given to his relation with his wife, Gemma Donati. While contextualising the figure of Dante's wife in the contemporary criticism, both Italian and British, I claim that one of Walter Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" is to be interpreted as an indirect response to Lord Byron's views expressed in his Don Juan, and I offer the complete Italian translation of Landor's "Dante and Gemma Donati".