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Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dante and Renaissance Florence
• Author: Simon A. (University of Warwick) Gilson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780521100182
• ISBN: 0521100186
• ID: 02021360
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 229 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2009

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