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Title Italy and the classical tradition : language, thought and poetry 1300-1600 / edited by Carlo Caruso & Andrew Laird.

Publication Info. London : Duckworth, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The classical languages and Italian : some questions of grammar and rhetoric / Guilio Lepschy -- 'Itali dicunt ozie' : describing non-standard and low-register speech in Latin / Philip Burton -- 'Utriusque linguae peritus' : how did one learn Greek and acquire the texts? / Nigel Wilson -- Alberti and the classical canon / Martin McLaughlin -- Plutarch's Camma : a Greek literary heroine's adventures in Renaissance Italy / Letizia Panizza -- Italy, France and the classical tradition : the origins of philological commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Jill Kraye -- 'Unicuique suum' : observations on Dante as reader of classical authors / Claudia Villa -- Petrarch's diploma of crowning : the Privilegium laureationis / Jonathan Usher -- Putting Italian Renaissance lyric in order : Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Latin Liber carminum / Stefano Carrai -- A Roman dialogue with Virgil and Homer : Capilupi, the Cento and Rome / George Hugo Tucker.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Italy.
Humanism -- Italy.
Italian literature -- 15th century -- Classical influences.
Italy -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Caruso, Carlo.
Laird, Andrew, Dr.
Other Form: Print version: Italy and the classical tradition : language, thought and poetry 1300-1600. London : Duckworth, 2009 x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 9780715637371 (OCoLC)214307397
ISBN 9781472521378 (e-book)
0715637371 (hc.)
9780715637371

 
    
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