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Boccaccio, Giovanni, - 1313-1375. --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, - 1313-1375. - Genealogia deorum

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Among the many sources used by Boccaccio in his scholarly work Genealogia deorum gentilium, there are also the Homeric poems, made available to the author thanks to Leonzio Pilato’s Latin translation. What is interesting is that besides the Latin text of Iliad and Odyssey, he makes use also of Leonzio’s glosses written in the margins of his autograph manuscripts. In the wake of Agostino Pertusi’s pioneering study, this paper traces a link between Leonzio’s glosses on the Odyssey (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. IX 29) and many passages of the Genealogia where Leonzio is quoted as a source. The analysis is structured in three parts, i.e. the quotation of Boccaccio’s passage, the text of the source and a detailed commentary on its use.

Leonzio Pilato --- Genealogia deorum gentilium --- Venezia --- Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana gr. IX 29 --- Odyssey Agostino Pertusi

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Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world. The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters indude over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek, Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography. Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set of Boccaccios complete Genealogy. --Book Jacket.Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world. The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters include over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek, Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography. Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set of Boccaccio's complete Genealogy.Review: A truly stupendous effort in which Boccaccio references hundreds of ancient Greek and Roman sources in over a thousand citations--a stunningly masterful synthesis of all classical mythology, running to over 700 chapters. The whole thing is an utterly amazing performance, a towering masterpiece of Renaissance humanism, and here, as one of the latest entries in Harvard University Press' I Tatti Renaissance Library, it gets its very first unabridged translation into English. Jon Solomon does the honors, everywhere using a deftly light touch that works perfectly to bring out the relatively straightforward simplicity, sometimes called "arid" by those who go into the work expecting frolics in the Tuscan hills, of the Latin Boccaccio uses in this teeming work...This I Tatti volume is in itself a mighty achievement, and when it's joined by its companion volumes, all attractively produced and supplied with the extensive critical apparatus most modern readers will need for a work that isn't entirely accessible, it will stand as a long-overdue monument to its beloved author. And it will give that author's many fans something new--and wonderful--by him to read. -- Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly 20110524

Boccaccio, Giovanni, --- Mythology, Classical --- Geography, Medieval --- Mythologie ancienne --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Geography, Medieval. --- Géographie médiévale. --- Handschrift. --- Latein. --- Mythologie ancienne. --- Mythology, Classical. --- Genealogia deorum (Boccaccio, Giovanni). --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, - 1313-1375 - Genealogia deorum

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"In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca 2150-1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage"--

Kinship --- Egyptians --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- History --- Civilization --- Kinship. --- Antiquities. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Parentiu --- Família --- Egipte --- Arqueologia --- Història --- Relacions familiars --- Famílies --- Dret de família --- Famílies monoparentals --- Institucions socials --- Llar --- Llars --- Matriarcat --- Matrimoni --- Patriarcat --- Sociologia --- Treball social de casos --- Ascendència --- Ascendents (Genealogia) --- Descendència --- Descendents (Genealogia) --- Consanguinitat --- Etnologia --- Tribus --- Aspectes socials --- Kinship - Egypt --- Egyptians - Kinship --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Egypt - History - Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C. --- Egypt - Civilization - To 332 B.C.