Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'

Author:   Simon Gilson (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107196551


Pages:   446
Publication Date:   15 February 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice and the 'Divine Poet'


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Author:   Simon Gilson (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781107196551


ISBN 10:   1107196558
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   15 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Florentine Legacies and Venetian Initiatives, 1481–1540: 1. Reading and refashioning the Comedy, 1484–1536; 2. Dante's verse, the De vulgari eloquentia, and the Convivio: editions and critical estimates, 1490–1532; Part II. Dante and Florentine Academies, 1540–1595: 3. Dante and Florentine academies; 4. 'His greatest partisan': Giovan Battista Gelli as public reader of Dante; Part III. Venetian 'Dantes', 1544–96: 5. New print commentaries: the 'espositioni' of Alessandro Vellutello and Bernardino Daniello; 6. Dante and the polygraphs.

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'… this analysis of Dante's fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.' Martin Eisner, Renaissance Quarterly


'... this analysis of Dante's fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.' Martin Eisner, Renaissance Quarterly '... this analysis of Dante's fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.' Martin Eisner, Renaissance Quarterly


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Simon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College. He has published extensively on Dante, Dante's reception, and the literary and philosophical culture of the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of Dante and Renaissance Florence (Cambridge, 2005) and has edited numerous volumes on science and literature, heresy and mysticism, and vernacular Aristotelianism.

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