Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature - Eisner, Martin (Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Duke University, North Carolina)

This book provides a new perspective on the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition through the close investigation of a single codex, written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, that preserves rare and unique texts of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. As such, it offers a major contribution to manuscript studies and a new portrait of Boccaccio.