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Gilson, Simon A. (2005) Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge studies in medieval literature, Vol.56 . Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521100182
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DG Italy P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Florence., Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421., Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life. | ||||
Series Name: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Cambridge ; New York | ||||
ISBN: | 9780521100182 | ||||
Official Date: | 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.56 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 324 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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