Petrarch and Boccaccio : the unity of knowledge in the pre-modern world / edited by Igor Candido.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Candido, Igor

Contributor:

Candido, Igor, editor.

Series:

Mimesis ; Bd. 61.

Mimesis : Romanische Literaturen der Welt ; Band 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante's encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch's and Boccaccio's heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Candido, Igor

The Formation of Knowledge and Petrarch's Books / Storey, H. Wayne

Sacra solitudo. Petrarch's authorship and the locus sacer / Enenkel, Karl

Petrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist / Witt, Ronald

Petrarch and the History of Philosophy / Celenza, Christopher

The Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical Texts in Petrarch's Canzoniere / Küpper, Joachim

From Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante and Petrarch's Lyrical Eschatologies / Gragnolati, Manuele / Southerden, Francesca

Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion / Candido, Igor

The Incipit of the Decameron: Textual Margins as an Index of Epochal Change / Regn, Gerhard

The Proemio of the Decameron. Boccaccio's Hidden Dialogue with Scholasticism / Kablitz, Andreas

Boccaccio's Novel Hecuba: Beritola between Ovid and Dante / Ciabattoni, Francesco

Boccaccio, the Classics and the Latin Middle Ages / Petoletti, Marco

The Inventors of Things in Boccaccio's De genealogia deorum gentilium / Cherchi, Paolo

Boccaccio's Critique of Petrarch / Mazzotta, Giuseppe

The Perfect Woman in Boccaccio and Petrarch / Ficara, Giorgio

Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Space of Vernacular Literature / Bragantini, Renzo

Between Petrarch and Boccaccio: Strategies of the End / Ferroni, Giulio

Contributors

Index of Manuscripts

Index Nominum

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783110419306

3110419300

OCLC:

1024042694

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access