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Title A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works / edited by Martin Eisner and David Lummus.

Publication Info. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 323 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; volume 17
William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; v. 17.
Summary "A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio's impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio's works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Boccaccio and the political thought of Renaissance humanism / James Hankins -- Boccaccio's humanist brigata : reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento / Timothy Kircher -- Poets prefer company : Boccaccio's portraits and the three crowns of Florence / Victoria Kirkham -- Under the cover of a green-hued book : Boccaccio's pastoral project / Jonathan Combs-Schilling -- Squarzafico's vita di Boccaccio and early modern print culture : a new model for the study of biography / Rhiannon Daniels -- Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy : notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli monti, selve, boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia de gli dei / Simon A. Gilson -- Bembo, Boccaccio, and the prose / Michael Sherberg -- "For instruction and benefit" : the renaissance Boccaccio as model of language and life / Brian Richardson -- De nuptiis comoediae et novellae : Italian comedy receives Boccaccio's Decameron (1486/1533) / Ronald L. Martinez -- Boccaccio's second life in French : Anthoine Le Maçon's Decameron and Marguerite De Navarre's Heptaméron / Marc Schachter -- Boccaccio in the spanish renaissance : juan de flores's grimalte y gradisa / Ignacio Navarrete -- Regendering Griselda on the London stage / Janet Levarie Smarr.
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Subject Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 -- Influence.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Eisner, Martin, 1978- editor.
Lummus, David, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Boccaccian renaissance. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] 9780268105891 (DLC) 2019011961
ISBN 9780268105921 (electronic book)
0268105928 (electronic book)
026810591X (electronic book)
9780268105914 (electronic book)
9780268105891