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Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropolo
Language: en
Pages: 261
Pages: 261
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcri
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
Language: en
Pages: 576
Pages: 576
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
`Building a Monument to Dante successfully tackles the topic of Boccaccio's life-long interest in Dante from a novel point of view, interrogating the many facet
