Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and Reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways.
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In this major collection of nineteen essays, BaraĆski explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about Literature and its status in the world, and, especially in Dante\'s case, forging and legitimating new forms of writing.
Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and Reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways