Boccaccios Naked Muse
Subtitle: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination (Toronto Italian Studies)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: March 13, 2008
Language: eng; ita; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802092045
Subjects: Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; European - Italian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian; General
Description: "Boccaccio's Naked Muse examines a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. In this study, Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works, but rather subtly altered and adapted them to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked."--Jacket.