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Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality

Barański, Zygmunt G.

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Series: Selected Essays, Book 6

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781888795
ISBN13: 9781781888797
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Feb 3 2020
Pages: 658
Weight: 2.73
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, and, especially in Dante's case, forging and legitimating new forms of writing. Each treated other authors, such as Guido Cavalcanti, or intellectuals, such as Epicurus, polemically and selectively as foils to their own self-portraits. Petrarch and Boccaccio had also to contend with Dante, and his extraordinary success as a 'modern' vernacular authority, though they employed very different strategies for doing so. Barański's close attention to the medieval context uniting these greatest of medieval writers is complemented by an equally close attention to the scholarly tradition on the questions addressed. To be a historian of literature also means being a historian of one's subject.

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