Building the canon through the classics : imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1550) / edited by Eloisa Morra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morra, Eloisa, 1988- editor.

Series:

Metaforms 15.

Metaforms studies in the reception of classical antiquity, 2212-9405 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Italian literature--Classical influences.

Canon (Literature).

Imitation in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the construction of a literary canon in Renaissance Italy by exploring the multiple reuses of classical authorities. The volume reshapes current debate on the notion of canon by intertwining two perspectives: analyzing when and in what form a canon emerged, and determining the ways in which an ancient literary canon interacts with the urge to bestow a similar authority on some later and contemporaneous authors. Each chapter makes an original contribution to its selected topic, but the collective strength of the volume relies on its simultaneous appeal to readers in Italian Studies, intellectual history, comparative studies and classical reception studies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on the Editor

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Eloisa Morra

Boccaccio as Homer: A Recently Discovered Self-portrait and the ‘modern’ Canon / Maddalena Signorini

In the Center of the Kaleidoscope: Ovidian Poetic Image and Boccaccio’s Self-Representation in De Mulieribus Claris / Talita Janine Juliani

The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon / Valentina Prosperi

Politian: The Philologer as Artist / Jaspreet Boparai

Humanistic Biographies of Horace and His Inclusion in the Fifteenth-century Literary Canon / Giacomo Comiati

Editing Vernacular Classics in the Early Sixteenth Century: Ancient Models and Modern Solutions* / Carlo Caruso

Building the Canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci’s epigrammatari as a Test Case / Nadia Cannata

The Literary Canon and the Visual Arts: From the Three Crowns to Ariosto and Tasso / Federica Caneparo

‘Re-figuring’ Lucian of Samosata: Authorship and Literary Canon in Early Modern Italy / Irene Fantappiè

Back Matter

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39803-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004398030 DOI