Martin Eisner

Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107041660
• ISBN-10: 110704166X
• Artikelnr.: 37803323

Autorenporträt

Martin Eisner is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular
literary community in the Chigi codex; 1. Dante's dirty feet and the
limping republic: Boccaccio's defense of literature in the Vita di Dante;
2. Dante's shame and Boccaccio's paratextual praise: editing the Vita
nuova, Commedia, and canzoni distese; 3. The making of Petrarch's
vernacular Book of Fragments (Fragmentorum liber); 4. The inventive scribe:
glossing Cavalcanti in the Chigi and Decameron 6.9; Epilogue: the allegory
of the vernacular: Boccaccio's Esposizioni and Petrarch's Griselda.