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Article: Simon A. Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
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- January 1, 2006
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Simon A. Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 324.
A study of the reception of Dante in Florence from 1350 to 1481, Simon Gilson's Dante and Renaissance Florence tracks how and to what purposes Dante's supporters and denigrators responded to their city's most famous vernacular poet. This is an original study, a clearly written, thorough, and important book that illustrates for the first time Dante's centrality to Florentine culture and thought in the Renaissance. Reception, in this book, is given a compendious application, as it embraces the diverse social and cultural links, in Latin or vernacular, with "humanists, ...