Medieval Mythography, Volume 3 : The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321-1475.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Citation Editions -- Chronology of Medieval Mythographers and Commentary Authors -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Toward a Subjective Mythography: Allegorical Figurae and Authorial Self-Projection -- Chapter Two. Dante's Self-Mythography: The Inverted Ovid "Commentary" of the Commedia (1321) and Its Family Glosses -- I. A Preface to Dante: His Sons' Glosses and His Medieval Commentary Authors (Inferno, Cantos 1-4) -- II. Ovidian Inglossation (Inferno, Cantos 3-27) -- III. Pilgrim Dante Metamorphosed (Inferno, Cantos 28-34) -- Chapter Three. "Iohannes de Certaldo": Self-Validation in Boccaccio's "Genealogies of the Gods" (ca. 1350-75) -- I. The Allegoria Mitologica (1332-34) of Naples: Boccaccio's Personalized Ovid -- II. The Genealogie Deorum Gentilium: Boccaccio's Quest for Authority in Epic Mythography -- III. At Certaldo: Boccaccio's Unfinished Commentary on Dante (1373-74) -- Chapter Four. Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea (1399-1401): A Feminized Commentary on Ovid -- I. Christine de Pizan Anti-Rose: Évrart de Conty and Finding a Female Voice -- II. Righting the Rose: The Othea's Moralized and Christianized Ovid -- III. Othea, Minerva, and Other Mythological Women: Humanizing Ovid -- Chapter Five. Christine de Pizan's Illuminated Women in the Cité des Dames (1405) -- I. From Othea and Proba to "Je, Cristine," Une Clere Femme -- II. Reading Boccaccio: Learned Women, Sibyls, and" Women Made Famous by Coincidence -- III. Arms and the Woman: Honorat Bovet, Jean de Meun, and Minerva in Le Livre des Fais d'Armes et de Chevalerie (1410) -- Chapter Six. Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir Perfectus: Justifying Seneca's Hercules Furens in De Laboribus Herculis (1378?-1405).

I. Reading Senecan Tragedies: The Origins of Salutati's De Laboribus Herculis -- II. Aeneas's Failed Descent into Virgil's Underworld: The Pythagorean Y -- III. The Influential Boethian Descents: Hercules versus Orpheus, Ulysses, and Amphiaraus -- Chapter Seven. Cristoforo Landino's "Judgment of Aeneas" in the Disputationes Camaldulenses (1475) -- I. Petrarch's Neoplatonic Aeneas, Vir Perfectus -- II. Landino's Medievalized Aeneas and the Three Goddesses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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