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Building a Monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista / Jason Houston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442640511
  • 9781442685727
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 858/.109
LOC classification:
  • PQ4286 .H69 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Monument to Dante Allighieri [sic] -- 1. Editor: Shaping the Material -- 2. Biographer: Crafting the Figure -- 3. Apologist: Defending the Monument -- 4. Commentator: Presenting the Monument -- Conclusion: Boccaccio the Architect -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: The shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio's relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.Jason Houston finds in Boccaccio's biographical writings a strong condemnation of Florentine politics and a harsh critique of Petrarch's political isolation, distinguishing Boccaccio's political and intellectual positions from those of both Dante and Petrarch. Reading the Trattatello in Laude di Dante and other writings as works intended to promote Dante as a brilliant political exemplum to the city of Florence, Houston discovers the processes by which Boccaccio constructed an image of Dante that continues to influence the way that readers understand the poet's life and works.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Monument to Dante Allighieri [sic] -- 1. Editor: Shaping the Material -- 2. Biographer: Crafting the Figure -- 3. Apologist: Defending the Monument -- 4. Commentator: Presenting the Monument -- Conclusion: Boccaccio the Architect -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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The shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio's relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.Jason Houston finds in Boccaccio's biographical writings a strong condemnation of Florentine politics and a harsh critique of Petrarch's political isolation, distinguishing Boccaccio's political and intellectual positions from those of both Dante and Petrarch. Reading the Trattatello in Laude di Dante and other writings as works intended to promote Dante as a brilliant political exemplum to the city of Florence, Houston discovers the processes by which Boccaccio constructed an image of Dante that continues to influence the way that readers understand the poet's life and works.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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