Filippo Gianferrari

Dante's Education (eBook, PDF)

Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his literary works. He reconstructs literacy instruction in late-medieval Italy to offer a compelling new reading of two of the world most famous literary works, Dante's Vita nova and Commedia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198881773
• Artikelnr.: 72253936

Autorenporträt

Filippo Gianferrari is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining UCSC, he has taught at Vassar College and Smith College. He works on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, lay education, and political theology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Filippo has published mostly on the topic of Dante's intellectual formation and Primo Levi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations and Note on Translations
* List of Illustrations
* Prologue: Learning in the City
* 1: An Introduction to Literacy and Education in Dante's Florence
* 2: Learning to Praise: The Vita nova as a Vernacular Reader
* 3: (Un)like Aesop: Defining the Commedia's Generic Monstrosity
* 4: Pugna pro patria: Freeing Cato from His Distichs
* 5: A Lesson in Cross-cultural Pastoral: The Ecloga Theoduli in
Purgatorio
* 6: Re-dressing Achilles, Resisting Proserpina, Surpassing Virgil: The
End of the Purgatorial Curriculum
* 7: "Be Silent, Ovid" (You, Too, Statius and Claudian): Underground
Voices in the Prologue to the Paradiso
* Epilogue "The school that you have followed"
* Bibliography
* General Index
* References to Dante's Works