Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire

by Robert Hollander

Before the publications of Robert Hollander and Attilio Bettinzoli in the early 1980s, there was little recognition of the surprisingly large debt owed by Boccaccio to Dante hidden in the pages of the Decameron. Boccaccio's knowledge and use of the works of Dante constitute a challenging topic, one that is beginning to receive the attention it deserves.
Among commentators, it had been an unexamined commonplace that the "young" Boccaccio...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472107674
• ISBN13: 9780472107674
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"