Boccaccio's Dante and the shaping force of satire / Robert Hollander.
1997
PQ4287 .H65 1997 (Mapit)
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Title
Boccaccio's Dante and the shaping force of satire / Robert Hollander.
Author
Hollander, Robert, 1933-
ISBN
0472107674 (alk. paper)
9780472107674 (alk. paper)
9780472107674 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
225 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PQ4287 .H65 1997
Summary
In Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire, Robert Hollander offers a valuable synthesis of new material and some previously published essays, addressing the question of Dante's influence on Boccaccio, particularly concerning the Commedia and the Decameron.
Hollander reveals that Boccaccio's writings are heavy with reminiscences of the Dante text that he believed to be the greatest "modern" work. It was Boccaccio's belief that Dante was the only writer who had achieved a status similar to that reserved for the greatest writers of antiquity. Most of these essays try to show how carefully Boccaccio reflects the texts of Dante in the Decameron. Some essays also turn to the question of Boccaccio's allied reading of Ovid, especially the amatory work, as part of his strategy to base his work primarily on these two great authorities as he develops his own vernacular and satiric vision of human foolishness. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire will be of tremendous value to scholars of medieval studies in general.
Hollander reveals that Boccaccio's writings are heavy with reminiscences of the Dante text that he believed to be the greatest "modern" work. It was Boccaccio's belief that Dante was the only writer who had achieved a status similar to that reserved for the greatest writers of antiquity. Most of these essays try to show how carefully Boccaccio reflects the texts of Dante in the Decameron. Some essays also turn to the question of Boccaccio's allied reading of Ovid, especially the amatory work, as part of his strategy to base his work primarily on these two great authorities as he develops his own vernacular and satiric vision of human foolishness. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire will be of tremendous value to scholars of medieval studies in general.
Note
Hollander reveals that Boccaccio's writings are heavy with reminiscences of the Dante text that he believed to be the greatest "modern" work. It was Boccaccio's belief that Dante was the only writer who had achieved a status similar to that reserved for the greatest writers of antiquity. Most of these essays try to show how carefully Boccaccio reflects the texts of Dante in the Decameron. Some essays also turn to the question of Boccaccio's allied reading of Ovid, especially the amatory work, as part of his strategy to base his work primarily on these two great authorities as he develops his own vernacular and satiric vision of human foolishness. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire will be of tremendous value to scholars of medieval studies in general.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also issued online.
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Table of Contents
Boccaccio's Dante
Imitative distance (Decameron I.i and VI.x)
Decameron : the sun rises in Dante
Utilità
The proem of the Decameron
Day ten of the Decameron : the myth of order / with Courtney Cahill
Appendix : hapax legomenon in Boccaccio's Decameron and its relation to Dante's Commedia.
Imitative distance (Decameron I.i and VI.x)
Decameron : the sun rises in Dante
Utilità
The proem of the Decameron
Day ten of the Decameron : the myth of order / with Courtney Cahill
Appendix : hapax legomenon in Boccaccio's Decameron and its relation to Dante's Commedia.