Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: Martin Eisner ,
David G. Lummus
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.638kg
ISBN: 9780268105891
ISBN 10: 0268105898
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 25 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The book enhances in a number of ways our knowledge of Boccaccio's legacy in the Renaissance, particularly in the area of the history of the book, but also Boccaccio's significance as a political thinker, his obsession with the pastoral, his role in the birth of Renaissance comedy, and new aspects of his influence in France, Spain, and England. The scholarship is very sound, as most contributors are acknowledged leaders in their fields. --Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford This is a collection of strong essays by leading experts in the field that break new ground in our understanding of the diverse reworkings of Boccaccio's works in the Renaissance and beyond, both in Italy and in Europe. These contributions are independently rigorous and original works. The book will be useful to readers in a variety of fields in studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian and European traditions and beyond. I agree wholeheartedly with the editors that the chapters 'leave signs of how much work still needs to be done and from what perspective that work must begin.' --Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University
Giovanni Boccaccio's presence as it radiates through time and space is captured and distilled in this elegantly-conceived volume. Martin Eisner and David Lummus have gathered and framed twelve distinguished essays on the 'Renaissance Boccaccio'; together they offer a compelling reexamination of the impact of this most generous of Italy's tre corone. --Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University The book enhances in a number of ways our knowledge of Boccaccio's legacy in the Renaissance, particularly in the area of the history of the book, but also Boccaccio's significance as a political thinker, his obsession with the pastoral, his role in the birth of Renaissance comedy, and new aspects of his influence in France, Spain, and England. The scholarship is very sound, as most contributors are acknowledged leaders in their fields. --Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford This is a collection of strong essays by leading experts in the field that break new ground in our understanding of the diverse reworkings of Boccaccio's works in the Renaissance and beyond, both in Italy and in Europe. These contributions are independently rigorous and original works. The book will be useful to readers in a variety of fields in studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian and European traditions and beyond. I agree wholeheartedly with the editors that the chapters 'leave signs of how much work still needs to be done and from what perspective that work must begin.' --Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University
This is a collection of strong essays by leading experts in the field that break new ground in our understanding of the diverse reworkings of Boccaccio's works in the Renaissance and beyond, both in Italy and in Europe. These contributions are independently rigorous and original works. The book will be useful to readers in a variety of fields in studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian and European traditions and beyond. I agree wholeheartedly with the editors that the chapters 'leave signs of how much work still needs to be done and from what perspective that work must begin.' --Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University The book enhances in a number of ways our knowledge of Boccaccio's legacy in the Renaissance, particularly in the area of the history of the book, but also Boccaccio's significance as a political thinker, his obsession with the pastoral, his role in the birth of Renaissance comedy, and new aspects of his influence in France, Spain, and England. The scholarship is very sound, as most contributors are acknowledged leaders in their fields. --Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford In this accessible and engaging translation, Graney makes a strong case for the value of studying the anti-Copernicans. . .The recovery of Locher's treatise demonstrates that 'Science's history matters' because it shows that true and honest debates within the scientific community have been part of the practice of modern science since its inception. --Seventeenth-Century News
Author Information
Martin Eisner is associate professor of Italian studies at Duke University. He is the author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular.
