Boccaccio the Philosopher : an epistemology of the Decameron / Filippo Andrei.
2017
PQ4294 .A53 2017
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Title
Boccaccio the Philosopher : an epistemology of the Decameron / Filippo Andrei.
Author
Andrei, Filippo, author.
ISBN
9783319651156 (electronic book)
3319651153 (electronic book)
3319651145
9783319651149
3319651153 (electronic book)
3319651145
9783319651149
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
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PQ4294 .A53 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
853.1
Summary
This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking. Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge. .
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents
The language of knowledge in the Decameron
Deified men and humanized gods : the epistemic character of the Fabula
Boccaccio's mountain and the voyage of the soul
The Motto and the enigma : rhetoric and knowledge in the sixth day
Practical philosophy and theory of action in the Decameron
Deified men and humanized gods : the epistemic character of the Fabula
Boccaccio's mountain and the voyage of the soul
The Motto and the enigma : rhetoric and knowledge in the sixth day
Practical philosophy and theory of action in the Decameron