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

Examines Dante's reception in the culture and criticism of Renaissance Italy, with a particular focus on Florence and Venice.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

The first comprehensive account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), investigating a range of responses to his work. The book covers significant topics including arguments surrounding Dante's authority as a 'classic' poet, and contemporary developments in philology, theology, science and printing.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Gilson, Simon (University of Oxford) Gilson, Simon (University of Warwick) Gilson, Simon A. Gilson, Simon A. (University of Warwick) Gilson, GILSON SIMON
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107196551
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19655-1
• No. of pages: 446
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Italy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets