Boccaccio the Philosopher [electronic resource] : An Epistemology of the Decameron / by Filippo Andrei.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319651156
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/6066
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 259 p. online resource.
Dizi
The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
Özet, vb.
This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of  Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking.  Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge.   .
Konu
Literature, Medieval.
European literature.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Medieval Literature.
European Literature.
Epistemology.
Medieval Philosophy.