# Boccaccio’s Critique of Petrarch

- Giuseppe Mazzotta

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## Chapters in this book

## Chapters in this book

- Frontmatter I

- Contents VII

- Acknowledgments IX

- Introduction 1

- The Formation of Knowledge and Petrarch’s Books 15

- Sacra solitudo. Petrarch’s authorship and the locus sacer 52

- Petrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist 65

- Petrarch and the History of Philosophy 78

- The Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical Texts in Petrarch’s Canzoniere 91

- From Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante and Petrarch’s Lyrical Eschatologies 129

- Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion 153

- The Incipit of the Decameron: Textual Margins as an Index of Epochal Change 176

- The Proemio of the Decameron. Boccaccio’s Hidden Dialogue with Scholasticism 194

- Boccaccio’s Novel Hecuba: Beritola between Ovid and Dante 209

- Boccaccio, the Classics and the Latin Middle Ages 226

- The Inventors of Things in Boccaccio’s De genealogia deorum gentilium 244

- Boccaccio’s Critique of Petrarch 270

- The Perfect Woman in Boccaccio and Petrarch 286

- Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Space of Vernacular Literature 313

- Between Petrarch and Boccaccio: Strategies of the End 340

- Contributors 367

- Index of Manuscripts 373

- Index Nominum 375

## Chapters in this book

- Frontmatter I

- Contents VII

- Acknowledgments IX

- Introduction 1

- The Formation of Knowledge and Petrarch’s Books 15

- Sacra solitudo. Petrarch’s authorship and the locus sacer 52

- Petrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist 65

- Petrarch and the History of Philosophy 78

- The Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical Texts in Petrarch’s Canzoniere 91

- From Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante and Petrarch’s Lyrical Eschatologies 129

- Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion 153

- The Incipit of the Decameron: Textual Margins as an Index of Epochal Change 176

- The Proemio of the Decameron. Boccaccio’s Hidden Dialogue with Scholasticism 194

- Boccaccio’s Novel Hecuba: Beritola between Ovid and Dante 209

- Boccaccio, the Classics and the Latin Middle Ages 226

- The Inventors of Things in Boccaccio’s De genealogia deorum gentilium 244

- Boccaccio’s Critique of Petrarch 270

- The Perfect Woman in Boccaccio and Petrarch 286

- Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Space of Vernacular Literature 313

- Between Petrarch and Boccaccio: Strategies of the End 340

- Contributors 367

- Index of Manuscripts 373

- Index Nominum 375