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Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo.

Publication: Italica
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1071 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo.(Book Review)

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Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo. "Biblioteca di Lettere Italiane. Studi e testi," LVII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001.

Vittorio Zaccaria is the preeminent scholar today of Boccaccio's Latin writings. Editor of the De mulieribus claris, the De casibus virorum illustrium, and (most massive project of all) the Genealogie deorum gentilium, and author of numerous studies on these works, Zaccaria has gathered together in this volume pieces and summaries of his previously published introductions, notes on the text, and other studies, along with corrections, refinements, updatings, and some new research. This volume is presented as "una guida alla lettura del Boccaccio latino," with an emphasis on the three major works but with reference also to other Latin writings. Although it is not a "guide" in either an introductory or comprehensive sense, it is nonetheless an important volume for anyone doing work on the Latin Boccaccio. Running through the otherwise separate chapters are threads of interest in what...

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