Boccaccio And The Invention Of Italian Literature

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107513081
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature written by Martin Eisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110704166X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature written by Martin Eisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107506626
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature written by Martin Eisner and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.

Author : John Humphreys Whitfield
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007828
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Italian Literature written by John Humphreys Whitfield and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book A History of Italian Literature written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434928
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Italian Literature written by Peter Brand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews

Author : Rhiannon Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573403
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boccaccio and the Book written by Rhiannon Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida , Decameron , and De mulieribus claris . Rhiannon Daniels is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Italian at the University of Leeds.

Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368926357
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A history of Italian literature written by Richard Garnett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
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Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.

Author : Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the Sonnet, and Other Studies in Italian Literature written by Ernest Hatch Wilkins and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1959 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: