Publisher's Synopsis
This volume represents the proceedings of the conference in memory of Vittore Branca held at the Warburg Institute in October 2005. Almost all the papers delivered at the conference are included, as well as two additional ones. The essays reflect the breadth of Branca's interests, from medieval to contemporary, and his ability to relate to scholars at all stages of their careers. The contributions focus on Boccaccio's Decameron and its later reception, Renaissance authors such as Petrarch and Machiavelli, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers Vittorio Alfieri and Ugo Foscolo, and a variety of twentieth-century figures including the novelist Cesare Pavese and the poet Eugenio Montale. Branca's special interest in Venice is represented by papers on Venetian charity and political rhetoric; there are also contributions on his anti-Fascism and philological methods. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of Italian literature ranging from the Middle Ages to the modern era, to enthusiasts for Venetian culture and to specialists interested in Branca's impact on these fields.
Contents:
Zygmunt Baranski: Boccaccio and Epicurus
Carlo Caruso: L'edizione Vittore Branca dell'Amorosa visione (1944) e la nuova filologia
Guyda Armstrong: The translated Boccaccio in early modern England
Nicola Jones: The importance of 'visualization': re-viewing Branca on manuscript illustrations
Rhiannon Daniels: Materiality and marginalia in Renaissance editions of the Decameron
Vincenzo Fera: I fragmenta de viris illustribus di Francesco Petrarca
Abigail Brundin: 'Presto fia 'l mio potere in farvi onore': Renaissance women poets and the importance of praise
Martin McLaughlin: Translation or rewriting? Beroaldo's version of Decameron X, 8
Brian Richardson: The scribal publication of Machiavelli's works: 'copisti per passione', 'copisti a prezzo'
Filippo de Vivo: Rhetoric and government in sixteenth-century Venice: some paradoxes
Brian Pullan: Italian charity and Venetian charity
Gilberto Pizzamiglio: Vittore Branca tra Alfieri e Conciliatore
John Lindon: Vittore Branca, Ugo Foscolo and Sarah Austin
Jonathan Usher: Walter Savage Landor as creative critic of Boccaccio
Enrico Palandri: A proposito di Pavese
Fabio Finotti: Vittore Branca, Montale e Finisterre: filologia e storia
Giovanni Morelli: Vittore Branca e Gian Francesco Malipiero
Guido Bonsaver: Vittore Branca e la fascistissima Firenze liberata
Carlo Ossola: Vittore Branca: le 'nuove nozze della cultura con la filologia'
