Benedetto

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The name Benedetto appears in the triad of Canto XXXII of the Paradiso: «Francesco, Benedetto e Augustino» (Par. XXXII, v. 35), where the poet recalls, alongside Francis of Assisi and Augustine, the figure whom tradition identifies as Saint Benedict of Nursia, father of Western monasticism, although this identification is not explicitly stated by the verse nor by the authorized notes provided. The available notes do not add further information on the figure; they concern other passages of the poem (Canto VI of the Paradiso, Cantos VIII of the Inferno and X of the Purgatorio) and deal with different subjects, such as the Monophysite controversy, the story of Filippo Argenti, and the sculptural reliefs of the Purgatorio. The verse from Paradiso XXXII, set within the framework of the Earthly Paradise, places the name in the survey that Bernard presents to Dante. The entry therefore limits itself to recording the textual mention, without attributing biographical details, offices, or places not supported by the anchor verses and the authorized notes.