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In This Book, Teodolinda Barolini Explores The Sources Of Italian Literary Culture In The Figures Of Its Lyric Poets And Its Three Crowns: Dante, Petrarch, And Boccaccio. Barolini Views The Origins Of Italian Literary Culture Through Four Prisms: The Ideological/philosophical, The Intertextual/multicultural, The Structural/formal, And The Social. The Essays In The First Section Treat The Ideology Of Love And Desire From The Early Lyric Tradition To The Inferno And Its Antecedents In Philosophy And Theology. In The Second, Barolini Focuses On Dante As Heir To Both The Christian Visionary And The Classical Pagan Traditions (with Emphasis On Vergil And Ovid). The Essays In The Third Part Analyze The Narrative Character Of Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Lyric Sequence, And Boccaccio's Decameron. Barolini Also Looks At The Cultural Implications Of The Editorial History Of Dante's Rime And At What Sparso Versus Organico Spells In The Italian Imaginary. In The Section On Gender, She Argues That The Didactic Texts Intended For Women's Use And Instruction, As Explored By Guittone, Dante, And Boccaccio--but Not By Petrarch--were More Progressive Than The Courtly Style For Which The Italian T

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Author

Teodolinda Barolini

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823227044

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction