Petrarch and Boccaccio: The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nThe Formation of Knowledge and Petrarch’s Books\nSacra solitudo. Petrarch’s authorship and the locus sacer\nPetrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist\nPetrarch and the History of Philosophy\nThe Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical Texts in Petrarch’s Canzoniere\nFrom Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante and Petrarch’s Lyrical Eschatologies\nDante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion\nThe Incipit of the Decameron: Textual Margins as an Index of Epochal Change\nThe Proemio of the Decameron. Boccaccio’s Hidden Dialogue with Scholasticism\nBoccaccio’s Novel Hecuba: Beritola between Ovid and Dante\nBoccaccio, the Classics and the Latin Middle Ages\nThe Inventors of Things in Boccaccio’s De genealogia deorum gentilium\nBoccaccio’s Critique of Petrarch\nThe Perfect Woman in Boccaccio and Petrarch\nPetrarch, Boccaccio, and the Space of Vernacular Literature\nBetween Petrarch and Boccaccio: Strategies of the End\nContributors\nIndex of Manuscripts\nIndex Nominum