Luca Fiorentini

Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante's Commedia

A Literary Canon Before its Official Birth

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Produktbeschreibung

This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century - Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The conclusions of this work are of interest to scholars of Dante in particular.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780367341992
• ISBN-10: 0367341999
• Artikelnr.: 69893517

Autorenporträt

Luca Fiorentini is Research Assistant at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

(0) Prologue (1) Chapter I
Poetry, Language, Allegory: Dante in the Hands of Petrarch and Boccaccio (2) Chapter II
Interpreting Dante in the Shadow of Petrarch and Boccaccio (3) Chapter III
Against Petrarch, Theoretician of Poetry: Benvenuto da Imola (4) Chapter IV
Contempt for the Present: The Revenge of Petrarch the Moralist and Historian (5) Epilogue