Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) |
Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages
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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
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SUBJECT |
Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni) fast |
Subject |
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- Italian.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- Italian.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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Literature.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Grudin, Robert
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ISBN |
9781137056849 |
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1137056843 |
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9780230341128 |
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0230341128 |
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1280880813 |
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9781280880810 |
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9786613722126 |
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661372212X |
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