Building a Monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houston, Jason M., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Influence.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Criticism and interpretation.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781442685727

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