num_pages: 340
description: Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when Dante was represented, commemorated and debated in a variety of ways. Paying particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, Italian humanism, and civic identity and popular culture in Florence, Gilson ranges across literature, philosophy and art, languages and social groups.
language: English
title: Dante and Renaissance Florence
titlecomplete: Dante and Renaissance Florence (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 56)
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Cambridge University Press