Boccaccio: gli antichi e i moderni

The essays collected in the volume intend to submit to a new and in-depth examination a significant range of themes and aspects relating to the vital presence of “ancient” and “modern” authors in Boccaccio’s work as well as to the exceptional secular reception of his literary production: from Homer to the reflection on poetry and poets, from methodological and thematic questions on intertextuality to the centrality and resonance of the word, in direct form and in writing, from luck to the ways of transformation and re-appropriation in other literatures and arts until the contemporary age . The authors, in the interweaving of voices of more disciplinary fields, are scholars of Italian literature (Giancarlo Alfano, Johannes Bartuschat, Lucia Battaglia Ricci, Renzo Bragantini, Anna Maria Cabrini, Claude Cazalé Bérard, Elisabetta Menetti, Francesco Spera, Ilaria Tufano, Cristina Zampese); Romance philology (Beatrice Barbiellini Amidei, Alfonso D’Agostino); Spanish literature (Maria Rosso); Italian linguistics (Giuseppe Polimeni).