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Author Grudin, Michaela Paasche, 1941-

Title Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance / Michaela Paasche Grudin and Robert Grudin
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Series The New Middle Ages
New Middle Ages
Contents Preface -- Introduction: Cicero and the Decameron -- Ingegno: The Individual and Authority: Decameron Day I -- Ingegno: Wit as the Soul of Action: Day II -- Ingegno: Wit as Misdirection and Iconoclasm: Day III -- Reason's Debt to Passion: Day IV -- The Shock of Recognition: Day V -- Misrule and Inspiration: Day VI -- Valley of Ingegno: Day VII -- Boccaccio's Ship of Fools: Day VIII -- Truth, Lie and Eloquence: Day IX -- The Ciceronian Synthesis and 'Author's Conclusion:' Day X -- The Decameron and Italian Culture -- Bibliography
Summary "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index
Notes English
Subject Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni) fast
Subject Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- Italian.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- Italian.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Grudin, Robert
ISBN 9781137056849
1137056843
9780230341128
0230341128
1280880813
9781280880810
9786613722126
661372212X