Building the canon through the classics : : imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1550) / / edited by Eloisa Morra.

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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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Metaforms 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource (237 pages).
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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.