Dante's education

• Verfasst von: Gianferrari, Filippo [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Dante's education
• Titelzusatz: Latin schoolbooks and vernacular poetics
• Verf.angabe: Filippo Gianferrari
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xi, 324 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888176-6
• ISBN: 978-0-19-199109-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Latein / (s)Unterricht / (s)Schule / (z)Geschichte / (z)Geschichte 1300-400 / (s)Bildung / (p)Alighieri, Dante
• Schlagwörter: (p)Alighieri, Dante
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Gianferrari, Filippo: Dante's education. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Resource (xi, 324 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1883799716

Abstract

"The book analyses manuscript and archival evidence to reconstruct the contents, practice, and readings of Latin instruction in the urban schools of fourteenth-century Florence and gauges Dante Alighieri's debts toward and engagement with these elementary forms of language instruction in his vernacular works. It shows Dante's continuous engagement with this culture of teaching in his poetics, thus revealing his contribution to the expansion of vernacular literacy and education. The book argues that to achieve his unprecedented position of authority as a vernacular intellectual, Dante conceived his poetic works as an alternative educational program for laypeople, who could read and write in the vernacular but had little or no proficiency in Latin"--