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Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante's Commedia: A Literary Canon Before its Official Birth

Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante's Commedia: A Literary Canon Before its Official Birth

Fiorentini, Luca

Hardcover

Series: Young Feltrinelli Prize in the Moral Sciences

EconomicsLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367341999
ISBN13: 9780367341992
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 18 2020
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century - Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.

Examining the first commentaries on Dante's Commedia, the book argues that the elaboration of the canon of the Tre Corone does not date back to the 15th century but instead to the last quarter of the 14th century. The investigation moves from Guglielmo Maramauro's commentary - circa 1373, and the first exegetical text in which we can find explicit quotations from Petrarch and Boccaccio - to the major commentators of the second half of the 14th century: Benvenuto da Imola, Francesco da Buti and the Anonimo Fiorentino. The work focuses on the conceptual and poetic continuity between Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio as identified by the first interpreters of the Commedia, demonstrating that contemporary readers and intellectuals immediately recognized a strong affinity between these three authors based on criteria not merely linguistic or rhetorical.

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