Screen LibraryBoccaccio and the invention of Italian literature : Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the authority of the vernacular /
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 243 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107041660 (cloth) : 110704166X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PQ4284 |
| CLC: | I546.093 |
| Call Number: | I546.093/E365 |
| Contents: | 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, an canzoni distese -- 3. The making of Petrarch's vernacular Book of Fragments (Fragmentorum liber) -- 4. The inventive scribe: glossing Cavalcanti in the Chig and Decameron 6.9 -- Epilogue: the allegory of the vernacular: Boccaccio's Esposizioni and Petrarch's Griselda. |