{"product_id":"building-a-monument-to-dante-9781442640511","title":"Building a Monument to Dante","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shadow of Dante Alighieri looms large in the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, and yet the full extent of Boccaccio''s relationship to Dante remains largely unexplored. \u003cem\u003eBuilding a Monument to Dante\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Houston finds in Boccaccio''s biographical writings a strong condemnation of Florentine politics and a harsh critique of Petrarch''s political isolation, distinguishing Boccaccio''s political and intellectual positions from those of both Dante and Petrarch. Reading the \u003cem\u003eTrattatello in Laude di Dante\u003c\/em\u003e and other writings as works intended to promote Dante as a brilliant political exemplum to the city of Florence, Houston discovers the processes by which Boccaccio constructed an image of Dante that \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Houstan should be congratulated for the questions he raises and the determination with which he pursues them. As a literary historian in the emerging neo-positive mold he is skillful.' -- James H.S. McGregor, Renaissance Quarterly: vol 64:01:2011\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187498869079,"sku":"9781442640511","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/building-a-monument-to-dante-9781442640511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}