Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante's Commedia: A Literary Canon Before its Official Birth

ISBN-13: 9780367497606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 112 str.

Luca Fiorentini

Opis

This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century – Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The conclusions of this work are of interest to scholars of Dante in particular.

Spis treści

PrologueChapter I – Poetry, Language, Allegory: Dante in the Hands of Petrarch and BoccaccioChapter II – Interpreting Dante in the Shadow of Petrarch and BoccaccioChapter III – Against Petrarch, Theoretician of Poetry: Benvenuto da ImolaChapter IV – Contempt for the Present: The Revenge of Petrarch the Moralist and HistorianEpilogue

O autorze

Luca Fiorentini is Research Assistant at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy.