Building the canon through the classics : imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1550) /

Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the construction of a literary canon in Renaissance Italy by exploring the multiple reuses of classical authorities. The volume reshapes current debate on the not...

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Other Authors: Morra, Eloisa, 1988- (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Metaforms 15.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

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Call Number: PQ4075 .B85 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on the Editor
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Eloisa Morra
  • Boccaccio as Homer: A Recently Discovered Self-portrait and the 'modern' Canon /
  • Maddalena Signorini
  • In the Center of the Kaleidoscope: Ovidian Poetic Image and Boccaccio's Self-Representation in De Mulieribus Claris /
  • Talita Janine Juliani
  • The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon /
  • Valentina Prosperi
  • Politian: The Philologer as Artist /
  • Jaspreet Boparai
  • Humanistic Biographies of Horace and His Inclusion in the Fifteenth-century Literary Canon /
  • Giacomo Comiati
  • Editing Vernacular Classics in the Early Sixteenth Century: Ancient Models and Modern Solutions* /
  • Carlo Caruso
  • Building the Canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci's epigrammatari as a Test Case /
  • Nadia Cannata
  • The Literary Canon and the Visual Arts: From the Three Crowns to Ariosto and Tasso /
  • Federica Caneparo
  • 'Re-figuring' Lucian of Samosata: Authorship and Literary Canon in Early Modern Italy /
  • Irene Fantappiè
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Names.