Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch : Responding to a Versatile Muse.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- Part 1 Writers as Readers -- Introduction "Ovid, the philosopher who wrote books about love" -- Chapter 1 Ovidius - Ovidi - Ovide - Ovidio: A History of Reading Ovid in the Due- and Trecento -- 1.1 Reading Ovid: The Material and Cultural Contexts -- 1.2 The Italian Readers of Ovid Turned Writers -- 1.3 Beyond Intertextuality? How to Think about Ovid's Influence -- Part 2 Readers as Writers -- Chapter 2 Examples (Not) to Follow: The First Italian Ovidian Poems and Their Occitan Models -- 2.1 Better and More: Ovidian Similes in Vernacular Poetry -- 2.2 Ovid's Book that Does Not Lie (to Troubadours) -- 2.3 Reading and Discussing Ovidio -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Something Old, Something New: Dante, Cino da Pistoia, and Ovid -- 3.1 "Per Ovidio parla Amore": First, the Vita nuova -- 3.2 Dante's petrose: Testing Out New Techniques -- 3.3 Cino da Pistoia, Dante, and Ovid on Love, Myth, and Exile -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Ovid in Dante's Commedia -- 4.1 In Search of Dante's (Copy of) Ovid -- 4.2 Dante's Ovidius: Close Readings of the Latin Text -- 4.3 Dante's Ovidio: The Vernacular Roots of Dante's Reading of Ovid -- 4.3.1 Ovidian Similes from Lyric Poetry to the Commedia -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5Petrarch's Scattered Ovidian Verses -- 5.1 Petrarch's Ovid Found -- 5.2 Just Like Apollo, Just Like Daphne: Similes and Identification -- 5.3 Metamorphosis as a Narrative Principle -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index.

In Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch, Julie Van Peteghem examines Ovid's influence on Italian poetry from its beginnings, through Dante, to Petrarch, situating it within the history of reading Ovid in medieval and early modern Italy.

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