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ITALIAN STUDIES: DUECENTO AND TRECENTO II (EXCLUDING DANTE)

ITALIAN STUDIES: DUECENTO AND TRECENTO II (EXCLUDING DANTE) Italian Studies DUECENTO AND TRECENTO II* (EXCLUDING DANTE) BY] ON A THAN USHER, Lecturer in Italian in the University of Edinburgh I. GENERAL Apart from the usual crop ofFestschrifts, retrospective collections of essays and reprintings, two trends seem worthy of interest: a growing realization that religious works hold vast promise for the literary historian, and a willingness to approach the linguistic realities of the period in fresh ways. Branca's Festschrift of monumental proportions (only exceeded by the bulk of his own contributions over the years), Miscellanea di studi in onore di Vittore Branca, F, Olschki, came out too late in the year to be seen by me, but vol. I, Dal medioevo al Petrarca, xii + 492 pp., is likely to have attracted some solid contributors. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Studies in the Italian 'Trecento' in Honor of Charles S. Singleton, ed. by A. S. Bernardo and L. Pellegrini, Binghamton, State Univ. ofN.York, contains a heartfelt essay by G. Petrocchi, 'Metodi di lettura degli scritti ascetici trecenteschi', pp. 354-66, which argues that such mystical/ascetic literature is a fertile field for present-day researchers to deepen the relationship which brings together experi­ ence and its expression, and the motions of the spirit http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

ITALIAN STUDIES: DUECENTO AND TRECENTO II (EXCLUDING DANTE)

USHER, JONATHAN
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies , Volume 45 (1): 14 – Mar 13, 1984
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Italian Studies DUECENTO AND TRECENTO II* (EXCLUDING DANTE) BY] ON A THAN USHER, Lecturer in Italian in the University of Edinburgh I. GENERAL Apart from the usual crop ofFestschrifts, retrospective collections of essays and reprintings, two trends seem worthy of interest: a growing realization that religious works hold vast promise for the literary historian, and a willingness to approach the linguistic realities of the period in fresh ways. Branca's Festschrift of monumental proportions (only exceeded by the bulk of his own contributions over the years), Miscellanea di studi in onore di Vittore Branca, F, Olschki, came out too late in the year to be seen by me, but vol. I, Dal medioevo al Petrarca, xii + 492 pp., is likely to have attracted some solid contributors. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Studies in the Italian 'Trecento' in Honor of Charles S. Singleton, ed. by A. S. Bernardo and L. Pellegrini, Binghamton, State Univ. ofN.York, contains a heartfelt essay by G. Petrocchi, 'Metodi di lettura degli scritti ascetici trecenteschi', pp. 354-66, which argues that such mystical/ascetic literature is a fertile field for present-day researchers to deepen the relationship which brings together experi­ ence and its expression, and the motions of the spirit

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