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- Eisner, M. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge University Press, 2013: 260 pages.
Abstract:
Examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.
Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular literary community in the Chigi codex
1. Dante's dirty feet and the limping republic: Boccaccio's defense of literature in the Vita di Dante
2. Dante's shame and Boccaccio's paratextual praise: editing the Vita nuova, Commedia, and canzoni distese
3. The making of Petrarch's vernacular Book of Fragments (Fragmentorum liber)
4. The inventive scribe: glossing Cavalcanti in the Chigi and Decameron 6.9
Epilogue: the allegory of the vernacular: Boccaccio's Esposizioni and Petrarch's Griselda.
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