Dante and Renaissance Florence

Simon A. Gilson

ISBN 10: 0521100186 / ISBN 13: 9780521100182

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2009

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dante and Renaissance Florence
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521100186
• ISBN 13: 9780521100182
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when Dante was represented, commemorated and debated in a variety of ways. Paying particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, Italian humanism, and civic identity and popular culture in Florence, Gilson ranges across literature, philosophy and art, languages and social groups.

About the Author

Simon Gilson is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick.