Abstract: Dante altered the reception of the Metamorphoses in Italian literature. In Convivio, he was the first to translate passages from the poem into Italian. Moreover, he introduced new myths into lyric poetry, with his own Le Rime and especially the Divine Comedy, for which the Metamorphoses is a reference text: Dante often alludes to it in a very concise way but is always faithful to the source, as shown by the revival of the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe.
