Examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular literary community...
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Examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular literary community in the Chigi codex -- 1. Dante's dirty feet and the limping republic: Boccaccio's defense of literature in the Vita di Dante -- 2. Dante's shame and Boccaccio's paratextual praise: editing the Vita nuova, Commedia, an canzoni distese -- 3. The making of Petrarch's vernacular Book of Fragments (Fragmentorum liber) -- 4. The inventive scribe: glossing Cavalcanti in the Chig and Decameron 6.9 -- Epilogue: the allegory of the vernacular: Boccaccio's Esposizioni and Petrarch's Griselda.