Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista
ISBN: 9781442685727
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Boccaccio Giovanni 1313–1375 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dante Alighieri 1265–1321;

Building a Monument to Dante employs literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.


Houston Jason :

Jason Houston is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Oklahoma.

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