Epic poetry of the Trecento : Dante's Comedy, Boccaccio's Teseida, and Petrarch's Africa
This thesis locates Dante's Divine Comedy (1307-1318), Boccaccio's Teseida (c.1340-1), and Petrarch's Africa (c. 1338-9) within a developing tradition of epic poetry. The works are usually treated separately, and are classed as epic to a varying degree, but I show that a reading of th...
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University of Oxford
2004
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