Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination /

"Boccaccio's Naked Muse examines a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. In this study, Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works, but rather subtly alt...

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Main Author: Gittes, Tobias Foster
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Latin
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
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