Dante and Renaissance Florence - Couverture souple

Gilson, Simon A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521100186 ISBN 13 : 9780521100182

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521100186
• ISBN 13: 9780521100182
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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