TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houston,Jason
TI  - Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista 
SN  - 9781442640511
AV  - PQ4286 .H69 2010eb
U1  - 858/.109 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685727
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