The contribution intends to relate the biographies of the philosophers and auctores contained in the glosses to canto IV of Dante’s Inferno to some possible sources consulted by Boccaccio. The study takes into account three possible competing sources: Giovanni Gallico’s Compendiloquium, which Boccaccio read in the Riccardian codex 1230 - postillated by him in one place -, the Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum by pseudo-Walter Burley and the Liber de dictis philosophorum antiquorum according to Boccaccio’s Laurentian Zibaldone. This text, previously considered of minor importance than the other biographical syllogies, will be given a prominent role, especially in correspondence with eight biographies in which it seems to have provided Boccaccio with ideas for the elaboration of the work.
University of Parma, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0193-3916
Chapter Title
Le biografie dei classici nelle glosse di Boccaccio al IV Canto dell’Inferno tra il Liber de dictis philosophorum antiquorum e altre sillogi di vite dei filosofi antichi
Authors
Chiara De Cesare
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-510-3.09
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Book Title
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2020
Book Subtitle
Atti del Seminario internazionale di studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa di Giovanni Boccaccio, 10-11 settembre 2020)
Editors
Giovanna Frosini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
196
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-510-3
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-509-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-510-3
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-512-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919