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Boccaccio and the invention of Italian literature
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ISBN: 9781107300484 9781107041660 9781461950790 1461950791 1107300487 110704166X 1107521297 1139893394 1107501237 110750662X 1107516994 1107497264 1107503922 1316619699 9781107521292 9781139893398 9781107501232 9781107516991 9781107497269 9781107503922 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.


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The English Boccaccio
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ISBN: 1442664231 9781442664234 9781442646032 1442646039 1442668555 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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"Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers."--Pub. desc

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