Linguistic theories in Dante and the humanists : : studies of language and intellectual history in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy /

Linguistic theories in Dante and the humanists : : studies of language and intellectual history in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy / / by Angelo Mazzocco.

One of the burning issues of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy was the question of language. The single most important figure to treat this subject in the late Middle Ages was Dante Alighieri. The Dantean argument on language with its implicit acknowledgment of a classical bilingualism and i...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 38
VerfasserIn:
Mazzocco, Angelo,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
©1993
Year of Publication:1993
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 388.
Physical Description:1 online resource (285 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE: BRUNI AND BIONDO: DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF THE FLORENTINE DEBATE
  • CHAPTER TWO: DANTE'S LINGUISTIC THEORIES: ELIXIR VITAE OF THE FLORENTINE DEBATE
  • CHAPTER THREE: DANTE, BRUNI AND THE BEGINNING OF THE QUESTIONE DELLA LINGUA
  • CHAPTER FOUR: DANTE, BIONDO AND THE BEGINNING OF ROMANCE PHILOLOGY
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE FLORENTINE DEBATE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF GUARINO, POGGIO, AND FILELFO
  • CHAPTER SIX: THE FLORENTINE DEBATE AND THE UNIQUE POSITION OF VALLA
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: THE FLORENTINE DEBATE, ALBERTI, AND THE REAFFIRMATION OF THE QUESTIONE DELLA LINGUA
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: DANTE'S NOTION OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS VERNACULAR: A REAPPRAISAL
  • CHAPTER NINE: \'LA LINGUA CH'IO PARLAI FU TUTTA SPENTA\': DANTE'S REAPPRAISAL OF THE ADAMIC LANGUAGE (PARADISO XXVI, 124-138)
  • APPENDIX ONE: THE BINOMIAL LATINA LINGUA/GRAMMATICA IN DANTE AND THE HUMANISTS
  • APPENDIX TWO: INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA I, XI-XV; II, VI AND PURGATORIO XXIV, 42-62; XXVI, 92-123: A CLARIFICATION OF THE DOLCE STIL NOVO
  • APPENDIX THREE: A RECENT CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORENTINE DEBATE OF 1435: MIRKO TAVONI'S LATINO, GRAMMATICA, VOLGARE. STORIA DI UNA QUESTIONE UMANISTICA
  • NOTES
  • INDEX.

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