Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy /

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Author / Creator:	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Imprint:	Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 764 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library series.
Subject:	Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. -- Divina commedia. Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation. Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280205

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Other authors / contributors:	Papio, Michael, 1967-
ISBN:	9781442697393 1442697393 9780802099754 0802099750
Notes:	Translation of: Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante. Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-730) and indexes.
Summary:	"In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population. These lectures, undeniably the most learned of all the early commentaries, came to be known as the Expositions on Dante's Divine Comedy. Though interrupted at Inferno XVII, they provide profound, near-contemporary interpretations of Dante's poem and contain, in many ways, some of the most beautiful aspects of Boccaccio's admirable literary production: narrative vignettes worthy of the best pages of the Decameron, insights on the rapidly changing approach to literary commentary, and a heartfelt belief that poetry is the most faithful guardian of history, philosophy, and theology." "Michael Papio's excellent translation finally makes the entirety of Boccaccio's often overlooked masterpiece accessible to a wider public and supplies a wealth of information in the introduction and notes that will prove useful to specialists and general readers alike."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: 9780802099754

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