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Piero Boitani

Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
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  • Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
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    Timeo in Paradiso: metafore e bellezza da Platone a Dante
    Donzelli editore. 2023.
    Plato
  • Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years
    . 2007.
  •  38
    Letteratura europea e medioevo volgare (review)
    Speculum 83 (3): 664-665. 2008.
  •  16
    Petrarch and the 'barbari Britanni'
    In Boitani Piero (ed.), Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years, . pp. 9-25. 2007.
  •  1
    Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe
    with Anna Torti
    . 1986.
  •  39
    The Bible and its Rewritings
    Oxford University Press UK. 2000.
    The Bible and its Rewritings examines some of the most beautiful and intriguing scenes from the Old and New Testament such as the encounter between Abraham and God, and Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The author also investigates the direct or indirect Re-Scriptures of these by writers like Thomas Mann, Chaucer, Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Faulkner, Tournier, Joseph Roth, as well as by ancient exegesis, catacomb frescoes, and church paintings.
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    Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads “The Divine Comedy.” Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 289. $29.50 (review)
    Speculum 67 (3): 750-752. 1992.
  •  42
    The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (review)
    Speculum 68 (2): 497-498. 1993.
    Stoics: Topics
  •  2
    From Darkness to Light: Governance and Government in Purgatorio XVI
    In John Woodhouse (ed.), Dante and Governance, Clarendon Press. pp. 12--26. 1997.
  • L'aurea leggenda
    Miscellanea Francescana 93 (3-4): 622-630. 1993.
  •  55
    Winthrop Wetherbee, The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets.(The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies.) Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Paper. Pp. xi, 305. $35 (review)
    Speculum 85 (4): 1038-1040. 2010.
  •  13
    Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy.(Chaucer Studies, 24.) Woodbridge, Suff., and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 1997. Pp. xi, 297. $79 (review)
    Speculum 75 (1): 204-206. 2000.
    Feminist EthicsPhilosophy of Literature
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