Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 337 Seiten )
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6 schwarz-weiße Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781487532734
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9781487532727
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context. In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487505806
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Filosa, Elsa Boccaccio’s Florence Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022 ISBN 9781487505806
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1487505809
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Boccaccio, Giovanni 1313-1375
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Florenz
DOI:
10.3138/9781487532727
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