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Contents 11 Figures and tables 12 Acknowledgments 14 Abbreviations for frequently cited works 16 Boccaccio 16 Petrarch 16 Dante 16 Introduction Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch 17 Ideas of tradition and the vernacular in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio 20 The material turn and the transformation of the Chigi 25 The two Boccaccios between Dante and Petrarch: Ytalie iam certus honos 28 The vernacular and love in the Genealogie 32 The authority of the literary field 35 Boccaccio’s ideas of a cultural renaissance: the letter to Pizzinga (Ep. 19) 40 The mediator and the codex 42 Chapter One Dante’s dirty feet and the limping republic 45 The limping republic and the prospect of Petrarch in Florence 47 The two versions of the Vita di Dante 51 The dirty feet of the vernacular 52 Boccaccio’s genealogy of poetry in the Vita di Dante 55 The substitute tomb and the bibliographical imagination 61 Chapter Two Dante’s shame and Boccaccio’s paratextual praise 66 Dante’s shame and the divisioni of the Vita nuova 69 Quomodo sedet: making up for what is lost 77 Paratexts for the Commedia 78 The book of the canzoni distese: reconsidering the crisis of the Boccaccian tradition 84 Chapter Three The m

Author

Martin Eisner

Published

2013

Language

EN