In his book I luoghi più oscuri e controversi della Divina Commedia di Dante dichiarati da lui stesso (1843), the Brescian scholar Giuseppe Picci (1809–1888) repeatedly uses the studies of Karl Witte, because he obviously sees him as an authority in the field of Dante Studies. A similar attitude towards Witte is also evident in later works that Picci dedicated to the question of the authenticity of the Epistola a Cangrande, although in these he took a position contrary to Witte’s. In the various editions of his successful Guida allo studio delle belle arti e al comporre, however, Picci at no point refers to the German scholar’s edition of the Commedia.
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