English and Italian literature from Dante to Shakespeare: a study of source, analogue and divergence

Abstract

Introduction: Wilton Diptych and Lorenzetti's Good Government cultures and politics in 14th-century Florence crisis and transition in the 14th century city. Part 1 Chaucer and the Italians: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio Dante The House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales Chaucer and Petrarch Chaucer and Boccaccio Troilus and Criseyde. Part 2 Education and politics 1350-1550: the Italian example - Coluccio Salutati and Guarino a second phase of humanism - philosophy and Greek in England and Italy Hoby Elyot and the Italian tradition. Part 3 Humanism and poetry: Wyatt Pwetrarch Alamanni and Aretino Sidney and Petrarch Sidney Sannazaro and Arcadia. Part 4 Renaissance epic: the theory of the epic romance in Ariosto and Tasso Ariosto and Harington Fairfax and the Gerusalemme Liberata the response of Sidney and Spenser. Part 5 Comedy in the Renaissance: Bibbiena's La Calandria Machiavelli's Mandragola and Giordano Bruno's Candelaio George Gascoigne's Supposes and Ariosto's I Suppositi. Part 6 in Italy and England: Cinthio and Bandello English novella collections - Fenton Whestone and Painter Webster and the idiom of the novella. Part 7 Pastoral experiment in the plays of Guarini Marston and Fletcher: the theory and practice of mixed forms in Cinthio and Guarini pastoral tragi-comedy in Marston and Fletcher. Part 8 Shakespeare and Italy: the Italy of Shakespeare's comedy - The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice experiments in mixed genres - All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cresida and for Measure Cymbeline and the Pastoral Othello and Dante's Vita Nuova.