Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular
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Eisner, M
2013
Examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription. Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular literary community in the Chigi codex 1. Dante's dirty feet and the limping republic: Boccaccio's defense of literature in the Vita di Dante 2. Dante's shame and Boccaccio's paratextual praise: editing the Vita nuova, Commedia, and canzoni distese 3. The making of Petrarch's vernacular Book of Fragments (Fragmentorum liber) 4. The inventive scribe: glossing Cavalcanti in the Chigi and Decameron 6.9 Epilogue: the allegory of the vernacular: Boccaccio's Esposizioni and Petrarch's Griselda.
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9781107041660
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2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Eisner, M. (2013). Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Eisner, Martin. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Eisner M. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2013.
Eisner, Martin. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Eisner M. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2013.
ISBN
9781107041660
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press