Simon A. Gilson (University of Warwick)

Dante and Renaissance Florence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly his influence on Boccaccio and Petrarch, and on humanism. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, Gilson's study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100182
• ISBN-10: 0521100186
• Artikelnr.: 25586049

Autorenporträt

Simon Gilson is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Competing Cults: the Legacy of the Trecento and the Impact of Humanism, 1350
1430: 1. Boccaccio and Petrarch; 2. Florentine humanism and vernacular culture: perspectives on Dante, 1375
1430; Part II. New Directions and the Rise of the Vernacular, 1430
1481: 3. Dante as a civic and linguistic model, 1430
1441; 4. Dante and Florentine vernacular humanism: critical judgments and literary experiments; Part III. Cristoforo Landino and his Comento sopra la Comedia (1481): 5. Cristoforo Landino on Dante and Florence: the prologue to the Comento; 6. Tradition and innovation in Cristoforo Landino's Comento: platonism, natural science and classicism; Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.