03548nam 2200709 450 991045840720332120200520144314.01-4426-8572-710.3138/9781442685727(CKB)2560000000054185(EBL)3272649(OCoLC)923773905(SSID)ssj0000483134(PQKBManifestationID)11331276(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483134(PQKBWorkID)10528859(PQKB)11331344(CEL)433676(CaBNvSL)slc00226191(MiAaPQ)EBC3272649(MiAaPQ)EBC4672421(DE-B1597)465188(OCoLC)1002243451(OCoLC)1004878451(OCoLC)1011446861(OCoLC)1013955994(OCoLC)944177010(OCoLC)999354829(DE-B1597)9781442685727(Au-PeEL)EBL4672421(CaPaEBR)ebr11258088(OCoLC)707712728(EXLCZ)99256000000005418520160923h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuilding a monument to Dante Boccaccio as Dantista /Jason M. HoustonToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2010.©20101 online resource (239 p.)Toronto Italian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4426-4051-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Monument to Dante Allighieri [sic] -- 1. Editor: Shaping the Material -- 2. Biographer: Crafting the Figure -- 3. Apologist: Defending the Monument -- 4. Commentator: Presenting the Monument -- Conclusion: Boccaccio the Architect -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexThe shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio's relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.Jason Houston finds in Boccaccio's biographical writings a strong condemnation of Florentine politics and a harsh critique of Petrarch's political isolation, distinguishing Boccaccio's political and intellectual positions from those of both Dante and Petrarch. Reading the Trattatello in Laude di Dante and other writings as works intended to promote Dante as a brilliant political exemplum to the city of Florence, Houston discovers the processes by which Boccaccio constructed an image of Dante that continues to influence the way that readers understand the poet's life and works.Toronto Italian StudiesLITERARY CRITICISM / European / ItalianbisacshElectronic books.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.858/.109Houston Jason M.1973-856735MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458407203321Building a monument to Dante1913422UNINA