A Boccaccian Renaissance

Description

A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance.

The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio’s works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct.

While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature.

Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• HISTORY
• Italian literature
• Petrarch
• Italian
• Cicero
• European
• Vergil
• Cicéron (homonymie)
• Dante Alighieri
• Renaissance
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 25 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268105914
• Langue: English

Extrait

A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE
T HE W ILLIAM AND K ATHERINE D EVERS S ERIES IN D ANTE AND M EDIEVAL I TALIAN L ITERATURE
Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and Christian Moevs, editors
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V OLUME 17 A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works • edited by Martin Eisner and David Lummus
V OLUME 16 The Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady • Fabio A. Camilletti
V OLUME 15 Boccaccio’s Corpus: Allegory, Ethics, and Vernacularity • James C. Kriesel
V OLUME 14 Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text • Sarah McNamer
V OLUME 13 Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary • edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli
V OLUME 12 Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy • Dennis Looney
V OLUME 11 Dante’s Commedia: Theology as Poetry • edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne
V OLUME 10 Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition • edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
V OLUME 9 The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets • Winthrop Wetherbee
V OLUME 8 Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy • Justin Steinberg
V OLUME 7 Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture • Manuele Gragnolati
V OLUME 6 Understanding Dante • John A. Scott
V OLUME 5 Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body • Gary P. Cestaro
V OLUME 4 The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore: A Late 13th-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose, Attributable to Dante • Translated, with introduction and notes, by Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz
A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE
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Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works
Edited by
MARTIN EISNER
and
DAVID LUMMUS
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
undpress.nd.edu
Copyright © 2019 by the University of Notre Dame
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Eisner, Martin, 1978– editor. | Lummus, David, editor.
Title: A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works / edited by Martin Eisner and David Lummus.
Description: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] | Series: The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; volume 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019011961 (print) | LCCN 2019016517 (ebook) | ISBN 9780268105921 (pdf) | ISBN 9780268105914 (epub) | ISBN 9780268105891 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 0268105898 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313–1375—Influence. | Literature, Modern—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PQ4284.5 (ebook) | LCC PQ4284.5 .B63 2019 (print) | DDC 858/.109—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019011961
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ABOUT THE WILLIAM AND KATHERINE DEVERS SERIES IN DANTE AND MEDIEVAL ITALIAN LITERATURE
The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame supports rare book acquisitions in the university’s John A. Zahm Dante collections, funds an annual visiting professorship in Dante studies, and supports electronic and print publication of scholarly research in the field. In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the university, the Devers program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current scholarship in the field of Dante studies. In 2011 the scope of the series was expanded to encompass thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian literature.
In keeping with the spirit that inspired the creation of the Devers program, the series takes Dante and medieval Italian literature as focal points that draw together the many disciplines and lines of inquiry that constitute a cultural tradition without fixed boundaries. Accordingly, the series hopes to illuminate this cultural tradition within contemporary critical debates in the humanities by reflecting both the highest quality of scholarly achievement and the greatest diversity of critical perspectives.
The series publishes works from a wide variety of disciplinary viewpoints and in diverse scholarly genres, including critical studies, commentaries, editions, reception studies, translations, and conference proceedings of exceptional importance. The series enjoys the support of an international advisory board composed of distinguished scholars and is published regularly by the University of Notre Dame Press. The Dolphin and Anchor device that appears on publications of the Devers series was used by the great humanist, grammarian, editor, and typographer Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), in whose 1502 edition of Dante (second issue) and all subsequent editions it appeared. The device illustrates the ancient proverb Festina lente, “Hurry up slowly.”
Zygmunt G. Barański, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and Christian Moevs, editors
ADVISORY BOARD
Albert Russell Ascoli, Berkeley
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia
Piero Boitani, Rome
Patrick Boyde, Cambridge
Alison Cornish, New York University
Claire Honess, Leeds
Christopher Kleinhenz, Wisconsin
Giuseppe Ledda, Bologna
Simone Marchesi, Princeton
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale
Lino Pertile, Harvard
John A. Scott, Western Australia
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Finding the Renaissance Boccaccio
MARTIN EISNER AND DAVID LUMMUS
PART 1. Boccaccio and Renaissance Humanism
1. Boccaccio and the Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism
JAMES HANKINS
2. Boccaccio’s Humanist Brigata : Reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento
TIMOTHY KIRCHER
PART 2. Framing the Renaissance Boccaccio
3. Poets Prefer Company: Boccaccio’s Portraits and the Three Crowns of Florence
VICTORIA KIRKHAM
4. Under the Cover of a Green-Hued Book: Boccaccio’s Pastoral Project
JONATHAN COMBS-SCHILLING
5. Squarzafico’s Vita di Boccaccio and Early Modern Print Culture: A New Model for the Study of Biography
RHIANNON DANIELS

6. Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio In Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy: Notes on Niccolò Liburnio’s Delli Monti, Selve, Boschi and Giuseppe Betussi’s Genealogia de Gli Dei
SIMON A. GILSON
PART 3. Boccaccio in Renaissance Italy
7. Bembo, Boccaccio, and the Prose
MICHAEL SHERBERG
8. “For instruction and benefit”: The Renaissance Boccaccio as Model of Language and Life
BRIAN RICHARDSON
9. De nuptiis comoediae et novellae : Italian Comedy Receives Boccaccio’s Decameron (1486–1533)
RONALD L. MARTINEZ
PART 4. Boccaccio in Renaissance Europe
10. Boccaccio’s Second Life in French: Anthoine Le Maçon’s Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron
MARC SCHACHTER
11. Boccaccio in the Spanish Renaissance: Juan de Flores’s Grimalte y Gradisa
IGNACIO NAVARRETE
12. Regendering Griselda on the London Stage
JANET LEVARIE SMARR
Contributors
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE 3.1. Dante alla Grotta di Tolmino , drawing by G. Derif and engraving by [Giacomo] Aliprandi, from Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia (Udine, 1823), vol. 1: Inferno , facing p. 1 (851.15D192DVG vol. 1). Photo from David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
FIGURE 3.2. Boccaccio in His Study , full-page, full-color illumination by an unknown artist, Rouen, early sixteenth c., in De casibus virorum illustrium , trans. Laurent de Premierfait, book 1, proem. (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale), Ms. Fr. 128, fol. 1r. Photo from Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
FIGURE 3.3. Detail: Boccaccio , from Domenico Castagno, Uomini famosi , 1449–51, detached fresco (Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi). Photo from Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici, Florence, on Wikimedia Commons.
FIGURE 3.4. Traditional Portraits of Boccaccio and Fiammetta in Edward Hutton, Giovanni Boccaccio (London, 1910), frontispiece. Details from Andrea di Buonaiuto, Via Veritatis , 1360s, fresco, S. M. Novella, Florence. Inset: Francis MacManus, Boccaccio (London, 1947), jacket cover by C. L. Barringer.
FIGURE 3.5. Detail, Boccaccio , from Dante, Petrarch, Zanobi, Boccaccio , attrib. to Niccolò Gerini, 1381/82–1406, fresco in a lunette, Palazzo del Proconsolo (Guild of the Judges and Notaries), Florence. Photo courtesy of Massimo Gennari.

FIGURE 3.6. Boccaccio , pen-and-ink drawing by Giovanni dal Ponte, 1450, in Boccaccio’s fiction work Corbaccio (Venice: Biblioteca Marciana), Ms. 10.127, fol. 47r. Photo from Biblioteca Marciana, Venice.
FIGURE 3.7. Six Tuscan Poets , oil on panel, by Giorgio Vasari, 1544 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art), William Hood Dunwoody Fund 71.24. Photo from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
FIGURE 5.1. Opening of the text. Filocolo (Venice: Gabriele and Filippo di Pietro, 1472), Oxford, Bodleian Library, Holk. C. 2, fol. 1r. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Bodleian Libraries, the University of Oxford.
FIGURE 5.2. Opening of the text. Filocolo