Résumé : The annotations that seventeenth-century French Italianist Gilles Ménage made to a copy of the 1577 editio princeps of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia allowed him to “invent” medieval Italian literature contemporary to Dante. By exploring Ménage’s annotations and Pietro Bembo’s reliance on Dante’s categorizations, this survey aims to underline the importance of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia in the construction of a medieval canon.
