Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'

ISBN-13: 9781107196551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 446 str.

Simon A. Gilson

Opis

Simon A. Gilson's new volume provides the first comprehensive account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced the way in which Dante's work was produced and circulated, from editing and translation to commentaries, criticism and public lectures. In so doing he overturns the received notion that Dante and his work were eclipsed during the Renaissance. Central themes of investigation include the contestation of Dante's authority as a 'classic' writer and the various forms of attack and defence employed by his detractors and partisans. The book pays close attention not only to the Divine Comedy but also to the Convivio and other of Dante's writings, and explores the ways in which the reception of these works was affected by contemporary developments in philology, literary theory, philosophy, theology, science and printing.

Recenzje

'… this analysis of Dante's fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.' Martin Eisner, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Part I. Florentine Legacies and Venetian Initiatives, 1481–1540: 1. Reading and refashioning the Comedy, 1484–1536; 2. Dante's verse, the De vulgari eloquentia, and the Convivio: editions and critical estimates, 1490–1532; Part II. Dante and Florentine Academies, 1540–1595: 3. Dante and Florentine academies; 4. 'His greatest partisan': Giovan Battista Gelli as public reader of Dante; Part III. Venetian 'Dantes', 1544–96: 5. New print commentaries: the 'espositioni' of Alessandro Vellutello and Bernardino Daniello; 6. Dante and the polygraphs.