Dante and Renaissance Florence

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CONTENTS: List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Competing Cults: the Legacy of the Trecento and the Impact of Humanism, 1350–1430: 1. Boccaccio and Petrarch 2. Florentine humanism and vernacular culture: perspectives on Dante, 1375–1430 Part II. New Directions and the Rise of the Vernacular, 1430–1481: 3. Dante as a civic and linguistic model, 1430–1441 4. Dante and Florentine vernacular humanism: critical judgments and literary experiments Part III. Cristoforo Landino and his Comento sopra la Comedia (1481): 5. Cristoforo Landino on Dante and Florence: the prologue to the Comento 6. Tradition and innovation in Cristoforo Landino's Comento: platonism, natural science and classicism Conclusion Notes Selected bibliography Index.