Simon A. Gilson (University of Warwick)

Dante and Renaissance Florence

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Produktbeschreibung

Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly his influence on Boccaccio and Petrarch, and on humanism. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, Gilson's study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100182
• ISBN-10: 0521100186
• Artikelnr.: 25586049

Autorenporträt

Simon Gilson is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Competing Cults: the Legacy of the Trecento and the Impact of Humanism, 1350-1430: 1. Boccaccio and Petrarch
2. Florentine humanism and vernacular culture: perspectives on Dante, 1375-1430
Part II. New Directions and the Rise of the Vernacular, 1430-1481: 3. Dante as a civic and linguistic model, 1430-1441
4. Dante and Florentine vernacular humanism: critical judgments and literary experiments
Part III. Cristoforo Landino and his Comento sopra la Comedia (1481): 5. Cristoforo Landino on Dante and Florence: the prologue to the Comento
6. Tradition and innovation in Cristoforo Landino's Comento: platonism, natural science and classicism
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.