by Giovanni Boccaccio · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420606071
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«Vida de Dante» is the biography of Dante Alighieri written by Giovanni Boccaccio, published by Alianza in paperback (138 pages, in Spanish).
Boccaccio, a great admirer of Dante Alighieri, wrote this brief treatise to vindicate the poet's figure before the indifference of his contemporaries. More than a conventional biographical account, the Florentine author traces the intellectual context of the creator of the Divine Comedy and offers a testimony of how his work was valued in the fourteenth century.
Edition in Alianza's El Libro de Bolsillo collection, with introduction, translation and notes by Carlos Alvar. Work originally known as Trattatello in laude di Dante, written around 1360.
It will interest readers of biographies, medieval history and Italian literature, as well as those seeking an approach to the Divine Comedy.
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese". He was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
