Dante and Renaissance Florence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521841658
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; History; European - General; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italy; Homes and haunts; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; To 1421; Dante Alighieri,; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; To 1500; 1265-1321; Florence; Florence (Italy); Intellectual life
First sentence: By 1350, the year of the first meeting of Boccaccio and Petrarch, the early polemical responses to Monarchia had largely subsided, and the Comedy had become a compelling text for a varied early public belonging to most, if not all sections, of Tuscan society.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature