Genealogy Of The Pagan Gods: Volume 1 Giovanni Boccaccio Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Religion

Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogy Of The Pagan Gods Is An Ambitious Work Humanistic Scholarship Whose Goal To Plunder Ancient And Medieval Literary Sources So As Create A Massive Synthesis Greek Roman Mythology Also Contains Famous Defense Value Studying Poetry In Christian World Complete Fifteen Books Meticulously Organized Genealogical Tree Identifying Approximately 950 Greco-Roman Mythological Figures Scope Enormous: 723 Chapters Include Over Thousand Citations From Two Hundred Trecento Authors Throughout Boccaccio Deploys Array Allegorical Historical Philological Critiques Myths Their Iconography Much More Than Mere Compilation Incorporates Hundreds Excerpts Comments On Illustrative New Spirit Cultural Inquiry Emerging Early Renaissance It At Once Most Demonstration Contemporaries Moral This First Volume Projected Three-Volume Set Σελίδες: 928 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0531 Διαστάσεις: 13 3X13 3Cm