Building a Monument to Dante
The shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio''s relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio''s multifaceted work as Dante''s editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figu...
The shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio''s relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio''s multifaceted work as Dante''s editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figu...
