From Divine To Human Dante S Circle Vs Boccaccio S Parodic Centers


From Divine To Human Dante S Circle Vs Boccaccio S Parodic Centers
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From Divine To Human Dante S Circle Vs Boccaccio S Parodic Centers


From Divine To Human Dante S Circle Vs Boccaccio S Parodic Centers
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Author : Dino S. Cervigni
language : en
Publisher: Bernardo Lecture Series
Release Date : 2009

From Divine To Human Dante S Circle Vs Boccaccio S Parodic Centers written by Dino S. Cervigni and has been published by Bernardo Lecture Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.


In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.



Language As Sin And Salvation A Lectura Of Inferno 18


Language As Sin And Salvation A Lectura Of Inferno 18
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Author : Zygmunt G. Bara?ski
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-11-01

Language As Sin And Salvation A Lectura Of Inferno 18 written by Zygmunt G. Bara?ski and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Describes several key roles of Canto 18 in the structure of the Commedia. Language as Sin and Salvation: A Lectura of Inferno 18 is the nineteenth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures that have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods. With its sexual overtones and scatological references, Inferno 18 has caused considerable embarrassment to Dante scholars, who have tended to offer partial and reductive readings of the canto. This essay aims to establish Inferno 18’s key role in the structure of the Commedia, not only in its function as “prologue” to one of the most original sections of Dante’s afterlife, the richly stratified circle of fraud, Malebolge, but also as the canto in which the poet addresses two of the major controversial questions relating to the form of his great poem, namely, its status as “comedy” and its linguistic eclecticism.



Courtesy Lost


Courtesy Lost
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Author : Kristina M. Olson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01

Courtesy Lost written by Kristina M. Olson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.


In Courtesy Lost, Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante's literary and political influence on Boccaccio. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia, torn between nostalgia for elite families in decline and the need to promote morality and magnanimity within the Florentine Republic. By examining the passages in Boccaccio's Decameron, De casibus, and Esposizioni in which the author rewrites moments in Florentine and Italian history that had also appeared in Dante's Commedia, Olson illuminates the ways in which Boccaccio expressed his deep ambivalence towards the political and social changes of his era. She illustrates this through an analysis of Dante's and Boccaccio's treatments of the idea of courtesy, or cortesia, in an era when the chivalry of the declining aristocracy was being supplanted by the civility of the rising merchant classes.



Favola Fui


 Favola Fui
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Author : Albert Russell Ascoli
language : en
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-01

Favola Fui written by Albert Russell Ascoli and has been published by Global Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante. Building upon his 2008 book Dante and the Making of a Modern Author, Albert Russell Ascoli here reflects on the extent to which Petrarch’s addresses to and figurations of his relationship to his readers intersect with the oft-asserted “modernity” of his authorial stances. In particular, Ascoli argues that following in the wake of Dante’s double staging of himself as reader of his own works (especially in the Vita Nuova), Petrarch shows a keen and probing awareness of how the process of poetic signification involves a continual interchange between author and reader, as well as a strong desire to control the nature of that interchange as much as he can. Ascoli asserts that between Dante and Petrarch two primary—and contradictory—features of literary modernity can be identified: the affirmation of the preeminence of authorial intention and the foregrounding of readerly freedom of interpretation. The Aldo S. Bernardo Lecture Series in the Humanities honors Professor Emeritus Aldo S. Bernardo, his scholarship in medieval Italian literature, and his service to Binghamton University as Professor of Romance Languages and University Distinguished Service Professor. The Bernardo Lecture Series is endowed by the Bernardo Fund and administered by Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), which Professor Bernardo cofounded and codirected with Professor Bernard Huppé from 1966 to 1973. The series offers annual lectures by distinguished scholars on topics related to Professor Bernardo’s primary fields of interest—medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on Dante Studies, and intellectual history.



Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague


Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague
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Author : Guido Ruggiero
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01

Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague written by Guido Ruggiero and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.


As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.



Songs Beyond Mankind


Songs Beyond Mankind
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Author : Lino Pertile
language : en
Publisher: Bernardo Lecture
Release Date : 2013

Songs Beyond Mankind written by Lino Pertile and has been published by Bernardo Lecture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.


Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz.



Favola Fui


 Favola Fui
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Author : Albert Russell Ascoli
language : en
Publisher: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Release Date : 2010-11-01

Favola Fui written by Albert Russell Ascoli and has been published by Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante. Building upon his 2008 book Dante and the Making of a Modern Author, Albert Russell Ascoli here reflects on the extent to which Petrarch’s addresses to and figurations of his relationship to his readers intersect with the oft-asserted “modernity” of his authorial stances. In particular, Ascoli argues that following in the wake of Dante’s double staging of himself as reader of his own works (especially in the Vita Nuova), Petrarch shows a keen and probing awareness of how the process of poetic signification involves a continual interchange between author and reader, as well as a strong desire to control the nature of that interchange as much as he can. Ascoli asserts that between Dante and Petrarch two primary—and contradictory—features of literary modernity can be identified: the affirmation of the preeminence of authorial intention and the foregrounding of readerly freedom of interpretation. The Aldo S. Bernardo Lecture Series in the Humanities honors Professor Emeritus Aldo S. Bernardo, his scholarship in medieval Italian literature, and his service to Binghamton University as Professor of Romance Languages and University Distinguished Service Professor. The Bernardo Lecture Series is endowed by the Bernardo Fund and administered by Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), which Professor Bernardo cofounded and codirected with Professor Bernard Huppé from 1966 to 1973. The series offers annual lectures by distinguished scholars on topics related to Professor Bernardo’s primary fields of interest—medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on Dante Studies, and intellectual history.



The Metaphysics Of Dante S Comedy


The Metaphysics Of Dante S Comedy
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Author : Christian Moevs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-13

The Metaphysics Of Dante S Comedy written by Christian Moevs and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.


Moevs offers a treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates 'The Divine Comedy', and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. He arrives at the conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being.



The Political Vision Of The Divine Comedy


The Political Vision Of The Divine Comedy
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Author : Joan M. Ferrante
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14

The Political Vision Of The Divine Comedy written by Joan M. Ferrante and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Poetry categories.


Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.



The Divine Vision Of Dante S Paradiso


The Divine Vision Of Dante S Paradiso
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Author : William Franke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-19

The Divine Vision Of Dante S Paradiso written by William Franke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.


A bold study that reveals Dante's medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.