Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance [electronic resource] /
Grudin, M.author.
Grudin, Robert.
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cicero and the Decameron; 1. Ingegno -The Individual and Authority: Decameron , Day I; 2. Ingegno -Wit as the Soul of Action: Day II; 3. Ingegno -Wit as Misdirection and Iconoclasm: Day III; 4. Reason's Debt to Passion: Day IV; 5. The Shock of Recognition: Day V; 6. Misrule and Inspiration: Day VI; 7. Valley of Ingegno : Day VII; 8. Boccaccio's Ship of Fools: Day VIII; 9. Truth, Lie, and Eloquence: Day IX; 10. The Ciceronian Synthesis: Day X and Author's Conclusion; Epilogue: The Decameron and Italian Culture; Notes
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Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Literature, Modern.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
World history.
Classical literature.
Anthropology.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Classical and Antique Literature.
Anthropology.