The Cambridge companion to Boccaccio

Folger bibliographic ID: 345121
Folger call number: PQ4294 .C34 2015
Folger holdings ID: 495967

"This book is designed for multiple audiences: those who are coming to Boccaccio for the first time, or who may have only a passing acquaintance with his work, those studying his texts as undergraduate or postgraduate students, and those scholars interested in the production and reception of Boccaccio's works from the medieval to the modern day. Although our Companion is relatively simple in form - a collection of short chapters which each take on key aspects of Boccaccio's life and works - we hope to give a sense of the complex interrelation between his texts, the social and literary contexts which conditioned their composition, and their subsequent reception in the centuries since. Boccaccio was a writer who mastered all the medieval language arts and showed a keen interest in literary theory and the interpretation of texts. Equally at home writing poetry, prose, and letters, he also produced commentaries on classical and vernacular texts, wrote encyclopaedic collections of mythological and historical biographies, and avidly collected classical, patristic, and contemporary writings in his own autograph notebooks"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

1. Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels and Stephen J. Milner -- Boccaccio as cultural mediator

Extended title: The Cambridge companion to Boccaccio / edited by Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner
Alternate titles: Companion to Boccaccio

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 Literature and society

subject: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
editor: Armstrong, Guyda
editor: Daniels, Rhiannon
editor: Milner, Stephen J., 1963-