TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrei,Filippo
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Boccaccio the Philosopher: An Epistemology of the Decameron 
T2  - The New Middle Ages
SN  - 9783319651156
AV  - PN661-694 
U1  - 809.02 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - European literature
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Medieval philosophy
KW  - Medieval Literature
KW  - European Literature
KW  - Medieval Philosophy
N1  - Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки
N2  - 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.   
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65115-6
ER  -