Building the Canon Through the Classics : Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580).

Intro -- Building the Canon through the Classics: Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Boccaccio as Homer: A Recently Discovered Self-portrait and the 'modern' Canon -- 3 In the Center of the Kaleidoscope: Ovidian Poetic Image and Boccaccio's Self-Representation in De Mulieribus Claris -- 4 The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon -- 5 Politian: The Philologer as Artist -- 6 Humanistic Biographies of Horace and His Inclusion in the Fifteenth-century Literary Canon -- 7 Editing Vernacular Classics in the Early Sixteenth Century: Ancient Models and Modern Solutions -- 8 Building the Canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci's epigrammatari as a Test Case -- 9 The Literary Canon and the Visual Arts: From the Three Crowns to Ariosto and Tasso -- 10 'Re-figuring' Lucian of Samosata: Authorship and Literary Canon in Early Modern Italy -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.

Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) explores the multiple facets of the formation of the literary canon in Renaissance Italy through the analysis of its complex relationship with the Classics.

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