Boccaccio on Poetry
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Boccaccio on Poetry: Being the Preface and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Books of Boccaccio´s Genealogia Deorum Gentilium in an English Version With Introductory Essay and Commentary At eighty-five a man has no more right to tamper with the work of his fifties than with the work of another man. Indeed, this book was the work of another man, younger by a generation than I, and, among all my issue of lesser years, my favorite. I may, therefore, be allowed happy satisfaction that its life is being prolonged by this new edition. And I am content that it should survive without correction or change. I have undertaken in these pages to make more accessible and. I hope, more intelligible the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Books of Boccaccio´s Genealogia Deorum Gentilium. They have been so often described in histories of literature and related works, that one need not again assert their importance in the history of humanism. But no one has yet fully measured their strong determinant influence upon the poetry, criticism, and scholarship of later times. Partly for the historic worth of these books, partly because the ideas which they contain may not be wholly unsalutary in this latter day, and partly because they lead to intimacy with that very engaging person, the author, this version has seemed worth the making. It had its origin more than twenty years ago in a suggestion of the late Professor Cook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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