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Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's ‹em›Comedy‹/em›.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2009Description: 1 online resource (832 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802099754
  • 9781442697393
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851/.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ4437.B62 A22 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Boccaccio as Lector Dantis -- Accessus -- Canto I: Literal Exposition -- Canto I: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto II: Literal Exposition -- Canto II: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto III: Literal Exposition -- Canto III: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto IV: Literal Exposition -- Canto IV: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto V: Literal Exposition -- Canto V: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VI: Literal Exposition -- Canto VI: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VII: Literal Exposition -- Canto VII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VIII: Literal Exposition -- Canto VIII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto IX: Literal Exposition -- Canto IX: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto X: Literal Exposition -- Canto XI: Literal Exposition -- Canto XII: Literal Exposition -- Canto XII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XIII: Literal Exposition -- Canto XIII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XIV: Literal Exposition -- Canto XIV: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XV: Literal Exposition -- Canto XVI: Literal Exposition -- Canto XVII: Literal Exposition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of the Translation -- Index of Quotations and Explicit References
Summary: In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population. These lectures, undeniably the most learned of all the early commentaries, came to be known as the Expositions on Dante's Divine Comedy. Though interrupted at Inferno XVII, they provide profound, near-contemporary interpretations of Dante's poem and contain, in many ways, some of the most beautiful aspects of Boccaccio's admirable literary production: narrative vignettes worthy of the best pages of the Decameron, insights on the rapidly changing approach to literary commentary, and a heartfelt belief that poetry is the most faithful guardian of history, philosophy, and theology.Michael Papio's excellent translation finally makes the entirety of Boccaccio's often overlooked masterpiece accessible to a wider public and supplies a wealth of information in the notes that will prove useful to specialists and to general readers alike.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Boccaccio as Lector Dantis -- Accessus -- Canto I: Literal Exposition -- Canto I: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto II: Literal Exposition -- Canto II: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto III: Literal Exposition -- Canto III: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto IV: Literal Exposition -- Canto IV: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto V: Literal Exposition -- Canto V: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VI: Literal Exposition -- Canto VI: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VII: Literal Exposition -- Canto VII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto VIII: Literal Exposition -- Canto VIII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto IX: Literal Exposition -- Canto IX: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto X: Literal Exposition -- Canto XI: Literal Exposition -- Canto XII: Literal Exposition -- Canto XII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XIII: Literal Exposition -- Canto XIII: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XIV: Literal Exposition -- Canto XIV: Allegorical Exposition -- Canto XV: Literal Exposition -- Canto XVI: Literal Exposition -- Canto XVII: Literal Exposition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of the Translation -- Index of Quotations and Explicit References

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In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population. These lectures, undeniably the most learned of all the early commentaries, came to be known as the Expositions on Dante's Divine Comedy. Though interrupted at Inferno XVII, they provide profound, near-contemporary interpretations of Dante's poem and contain, in many ways, some of the most beautiful aspects of Boccaccio's admirable literary production: narrative vignettes worthy of the best pages of the Decameron, insights on the rapidly changing approach to literary commentary, and a heartfelt belief that poetry is the most faithful guardian of history, philosophy, and theology.Michael Papio's excellent translation finally makes the entirety of Boccaccio's often overlooked masterpiece accessible to a wider public and supplies a wealth of information in the notes that will prove useful to specialists and to general readers alike.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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