Boccaccio: A Biography - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marco Santagata, Emlyn Eisenach (Translator)Publish date:2025-05-07Pages:424
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226820941ISBN-10:226820947UPC:9780226820941Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, MedievalBook Topic:ItalianSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCKKJYZ730
Boccaccio: A Biography
A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante's award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226820941ISBN-10:226820947UPC:9780226820941Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, MedievalBook Topic:ItalianSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCKKJYZ730
Marco Santagata (1947Dante: The Story of His Life. Emlyn Eisenach is an independent scholar and translator and the author of Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona.
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