City of Poetry - Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy

This book is for students and scholars of medieval literature and for readers interested in the public intellectuals of the past. It provides new accounts of major authors like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and invites readers to make comparisons with current debates about the public humanities.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Albertino Mussato, Poet of the City; 2. Dante Alighieri, Poet without a City; 3. Francesco Petrarch, Poet beyond the City; 4. Giovanni Boccaccio, Poet for the City; Epilogue: Coluccio Salutati and the Future of the City of Poetry.

About the author

David G. Lummus is the co-director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies and a visiting assistant professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame. He has published on fourteenth-century Italian poetry and poetics, especially Giovanni Boccaccio, and the reception of classical culture in medieval Italy. He is the co-editor of A Boccaccian Renaissance (2019).

Summary

This book is for students and scholars of medieval literature and for readers interested in the public intellectuals of the past. It provides new accounts of major authors like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and invites readers to make comparisons with current debates about the public humanities.

Product details

• Authors: David G Lummus, David G. Lummus, David G. (University of Notre Dame Lummus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108813174
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81317-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; History, Europe, POETRY / General, Poetry, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Archaeology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE