Title:
Building a monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista
Author:
Houston, Jason M., 1973-
ISBN:
9781442685727
Publication Information:
Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
General Note:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442685727Copies:
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