Petrarch and Boccaccio

The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink th...

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description The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-352472025-07-31T07:59:39Z Petrarch and Boccaccio Candido, Igor Literature Dante Alighieri Giovanni Boccaccio Petrarch The Decameron The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-04-19 23:55 2020-03-21 03:00:30 2020-04-01T12:48:30Z 2017-11-20 book 648365 OCN: 1048173728 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30213 9783110419306 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35247 eng MIMESIS open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30213/1/648365.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30213/1/648365.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30213/1/648365.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30213/1/648365.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30213/1/648365.pdf De Gruyter Mouton f2b72af2-1b7f-4821-94e7-24b24cbf7437 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783110419306 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Front list Collection 101192 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection open access
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Petrarch and Boccaccio
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Decameron
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Dante Alighieri
Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Decameron
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