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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 February 2018
      15 February 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108164795
      9781107196551
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164795
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 446 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
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    Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced the way in which Dante's work was produced and circulated, from editing and translation to commentaries, criticism and public lectures. In so doing he modifies the received notion that Dante and his work were eclipsed during the Renaissance. Central themes of investigation include the contestation of Dante's authority as a 'classic' writer and the various forms of attack and defence employed by his detractors and partisans. The book pays close attention not only to the Divine Comedy but also to the Convivio and other of Dante's writings, and explores the ways in which the reception of these works was affected by contemporary developments in philology, literary theory, philosophy, theology, science and printing.

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    ‘… this analysis of Dante’s fortuna in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice offers both a valuable guide and a stimulus for future research.’

    Martin Eisner Source: Renaissance Quarterly

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