A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works

Folger bibliographic ID: 366877
Folger holdings ID: 514930

"A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio's impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio's works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Boccaccio and the political thought of Renaissance humanism / James Hankins -- Boccaccio's humanist brigata : reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento / Timothy Kircher -- Poets prefer company : Boccaccio's portraits and the three crowns of Florence / Victoria Kirkham -- Under the cover of a green-hued book : Boccaccio's pastoral project / Jonathan Combs-Schilling -- Squarzafico's vita di Boccaccio and early modern print culture : a new model for the study of biography / Rhiannon Daniels -- Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy : notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli monti, selve, boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia de gli dei / Simon A. Gilson -- Bembo, Boccaccio, and the prose / Michael Sherberg -- "For instruction and benefit" : the renaissance Boccaccio as model of language and life / Brian Richardson -- De nuptiis comoediae et novellae : Italian comedy receives Boccaccio's Decameron (1486-1533) / Ronald L. Martinez -- Boccaccio's second life in French : Anthoine Le Maçon's Decameron and Marguerite De Navarre's Heptaméron / Marc Schachter -- Boccaccio in the spanish renaissance : juan de flores's grimalte y gradisa / Ignacio Navarrete -- Regendering Griselda on the London stage / Janet Levarie Smarr

Extended title: A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works / edited by Martin Eisner and David Lummus

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 Literature, Modern Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

subject: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
editor: Eisner, Martin, 1978-
editor: Lummus, David