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Article: Dante and Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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Simon Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 56. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 324 pp. index. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0-521-84165-8.
Since the publication of Michele Barbi's Dante nel Cinquecento (1890) scholars have found Dante's reception in the Renaissance a compelling subject. Subsequent critics, among them Emilio Bigi, Carlo Dionisotti, Aldo Vallone, and Christian Bec, have explored the highly varied responses of commentators, humanists, poets, and other readers toward the figure of Dante and his works. Simon Gilson's book builds on this tradition, finding within it topics ...