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Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as DantistaBuilding a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as DantistaBuilding a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista
Type
Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.52 kg.
ISBN
9781442640511
ISBN13
9781442640511
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Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista

Jason Houston (Author) · University of Toronto Press · Hardcover

Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista - Houston, Jason

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Synopsis "Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista"

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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