Boccaccio
A Biography
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2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82094-1 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82094-1 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of international humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante’s award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy of Boccaccio—whose unflinching story of a pandemic-era community (the Decameron) created new possibilities for vernacular Italian prose writing.
This first major biography sheds new light on Boccaccio’s life—his family, friends, and foes, aspirations, fears, and frustrations. Santagata shows how transformations in Italian culture affected Boccaccio throughout his life. Most importantly, he charts the influences that shaped Boccaccio’s understanding of literature: what kinds of stories it could tell and what kinds of characters it could depict; and, perhaps most importantly, what role art could play in a changing world. This book promises to be the definitive biography of Boccaccio for many years to come.
Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of international humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante’s award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy of Boccaccio—whose unflinching story of a pandemic-era community (the Decameron) created new possibilities for vernacular Italian prose writing.
This first major biography sheds new light on Boccaccio’s life—his family, friends, and foes, aspirations, fears, and frustrations. Santagata shows how transformations in Italian culture affected Boccaccio throughout his life. Most importantly, he charts the influences that shaped Boccaccio’s understanding of literature: what kinds of stories it could tell and what kinds of characters it could depict; and, perhaps most importantly, what role art could play in a changing world. This book promises to be the definitive biography of Boccaccio for many years to come.
Marco Santagata was professor of Italian literature at the University of Pisa and the author of many books, including Dante: The Story of His Life. Emlyn Eisenach is an independent scholar and translator and the author of Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona.
Part I. Youth (1313–1340)
1. A Boy in Florence
2. Naples, a New World
3. Canonist and Scholar: A Life Plan
4. The Birth of the Author
Part II. Maturity (1341–1360)
5. In His Father’s House
6. In Search of an Alternative
7. Years of Service
8. The Dignity of the Vernacular
9. Highs and Lows
Part III. Old Age (1361–1375)
10. Disgrace
11. Return to the Florentine Stage
12. Twilight
Primary Sources
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Emlyn Eisenach |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82094-7 / 0226820947 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82094-1 / 9780226820941 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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