David G. Lummus (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

The City of Poetry

Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for students and scholars of medieval literature and for readers interested in the public intellectuals of the past. It provides new accounts of major authors like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and invites readers to make comparisons with current debates about the public humanities.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781108813174
• ISBN-10: 1108813178
• Artikelnr.: 66221389

Autorenporträt

David G. Lummus is the co-director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies and a visiting assistant professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame. He has published on fourteenth-century Italian poetry and poetics, especially Giovanni Boccaccio, and the reception of classical culture in medieval Italy. He is the co-editor of A Boccaccian Renaissance (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Albertino Mussato, Poet of the City
2. Dante Alighieri, Poet without a City
3. Francesco Petrarch, Poet beyond the City
4. Giovanni Boccaccio, Poet for the City
Epilogue: Coluccio Salutati and the Future of the City of Poetry.