A Boccaccian Renaissance : Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature)

Eisner, Martin (EDT)/ Lummus, David G. (EDT)

University of Notre Dame Press（2019/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780268105891
• DDC分類 858.109

Full Description

A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio's impact on the Renaissance.

The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio's works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct.

While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature.

Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr

Contents

Introduction: "Finding the Renaissance Boccaccio" by Martin Eisner and David Lummus

Part 1. Boccaccio and Renaissance Humanism

1. "Boccaccio and the Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism" by James Hankins

2. "Boccaccio's Humanist Brigata: Reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento" by Timothy Kircher

Part 2. Framing the Renaissance Boccaccio

3. "Poets Prefer Company: Boccaccio's Portraits and the Three Crowns of Florence" by Victoria Kirkham

4. "Under the Cover of a Green-Hued Book: Boccaccio's Pastoral Project" by Jonathan Combs-Schilling

5. "Squarzafico's Vita di Boccaccio and Early Modern Print Culture: A New Model for the Study of Biography" by Rhiannon Daniels

6. "Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio In Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy: Notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli Monti, Selve, Boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia De Gli Dei" by Simon Gilson

Part 3. Boccaccio in Renaissance Italy

7. "Along the Path of Disaster: The Decameron and Bembo's Prose" by Michael Sherberg

8. "'For instruction and benefit': The Renaissance Boccaccio as Model of Language and Life" by Brian Richardson

9. "De nuptiis comoediae et novellae: Italian Comedy Receives Boccaccio's Decameron (1486-1533)" by Ronald L. Martinez

Part 4. Boccaccio in Renaissance Europe

10. "Language, Nation, Translation: When Boccaccio's Unnatural Prose Becomes 'le commun langaige Francoys'" by Marc Schachter

11. "Boccaccio in the Spanish Renaissance: Juan de Flores's Grimalte y Gradisa" by Ignacio Navarrete

12. "Regendering Griselda on the London Stage" by Janet Levarie Smarr