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Building a monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista /

Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Houston, Jason M., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.
Notas:Editor: medieval and modern -- Boccaccio, editor of Dante -- The legacy of Boccaccio's edition of Dante -- Sopra il monumento di Dante -- Boccaccio and the genres of medieval biography -- An empty tomb -- Boccaccio's advice to Petrarca: read Dante! -- The Corbaccio: Boccaccio's vernacular parody -- Boccaccio's Latin Dante -- Pro Dante poeta -- Boccaccio's Esposizioni: Dante as 'vernacular humanist' -- Boccaccio's Paradiso -- Boccaccio Dantista and the Decameron.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442685727
1442685727