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Dante and Renaissance Florence »

Authors: Alastair Minnis (Editor), Patrick Boyde (Editor), Simon Gilson
ISBN-13: 9780521841658, ISBN-10: 0521841658
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Simon Gilson is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick.

Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Pt. I	Competing cults : the legacy of the Trecento and the impact of humanism, 1350-1430
1	Boccaccio and Petrarch	21
2	Florentine humanism and vernacular culture : perspectives on Dante, 1375-1430	54
Pt. II	New directions and the rise of the vernacular, 1430-1481
3	Dante as a civic and linguistic model, 1430-1441	97
4	Dante and Florentine vernacular humanism : critical judgements and literary experiments	132
Pt. III	Cristoforo Landino and his Comento sopra la Comedia (1481)
5	Cristoforo Landino on Dante and Florence : the prologue to the Comento	163
6	Tradition and innovation in Cristoforo Landino's Comento : platonism, natural science, and classicism	194