Parole chiave: Leonzio Pilato, Boccaccio, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Lessicografia
Abstract: From Leonzio Pilato to Tomasi di Lampedusa through Boccaccio. Literary and Textual Notes. This essay shows that the cultural and literary programmatic principles proudly declared by Boccaccio in the Genealogie deorum gentilium laid the foundations of Florentine Humanism: Varro’s advice to abandon the Latin models and search for the Greek sources of culture, reported by Cicero in such a rare text as the Academica posteriora, was eagerly embraced and declared by Boccaccio, and ad fontes became the motto of a new age and a new philology, frequently repeated by the humanists. Boccaccio’s teacher, Leonzio Pilato, was the first to disclose Homer to the western Latin world. Some aspects and problems of his translations are herein examined, so as to show how his influence, through Boccaccio’s Genealogies, can be traced all the way down to the modern novel.
Keywords: Leonzio Pilato, Boccaccio, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Lexicography
Contenuto in: Giovanni Boccaccio: tradizione, interpretazione e fortuna. In ricordo di Vittore Branca
Curatori: Antonio Ferracin e Matteo Venier
Editore: Forum
Luogo di pubblicazione: Udine
Anno di pubblicazione: 2014
Collana: Libri e biblioteche
ISBN: 978-88-8420-849-1
ISBN: 978-88-8420-976-4 (versione digitale/pdf)
Pagine: 19-33
DOI: 10.4424/978-88-8420-849-1-02
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Per citare:
Antonio Guida,
«Da Leonzio Pilato a Tomasi di Lampedusa attraverso Boccaccio. Note letterarie e testuali», in
Antonio Ferracin e Matteo Venier (a cura di),
Giovanni Boccaccio: tradizione, interpretazione e fortuna. In ricordo di Vittore Branca, Udine, Forum, 2014,
pp.
19-33