Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy write by Simon Gilson. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced the way in which Dante's work was produced and circulated, from editing and translation to commentaries, criticism and public lectures. In so doing he modifies the received notion that Dante and his work were eclipsed during the Renaissance. Central themes of investigation include the contestation of Dante's authority as a 'classic' writer and the various forms of attack and defence employed by his detractors and partisans. The book pays close attention not only to the Divine Comedy but also to the Convivio and other of Dante's writings, and explores the ways in which the reception of these works was affected by contemporary developments in philology, literary theory, philosophy, theology, science and printing.
Dante’s Bones
Dante’s Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante’s Bones write by Guy P. Raffa. This book was released on 2020-05-12. Dante’s Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.
Accounting for Dante
Accounting for Dante - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accounting for Dante write by Justin Steinberg. This book was released on 2007. Accounting for Dante available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Accounting for Dante' examines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as those who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. The study reveals the importance of professional, urban classes as cultivators of early Italian poetry.
Dante and Renaissance Florence
Dante and Renaissance Florence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and Renaissance Florence write by Simon A. Gilson. This book was released on 2005-01-13. Dante and Renaissance Florence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.
Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists
Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists write by Angelo Mazzocco. This book was released on 1993. Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante Alighieri's argument on the question of the language stimulated the debate among fifteenth century humanists. This book provides a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language as well as a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena.
