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Illustrations vii
Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations and Citation Editions xix
Chronology of Medieval Mythographers and
Commentary Authors xxv
Introduction 1
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Chapter One. Toward a Subjective Mythography:
Allegorical Figurae and Authorial Self-Projection 17
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Chapter Two. Dante’s Self-Mythography: The Inverted Ovid
“Commentary” of the Commedia (1321) and Its Family Glosses 39
I.A Preface to Dante: His Sons’ Glosses and His Medieval Commentary Authors (Inferno, Cantos 1–4) 47
II.Ovidian Inglossation (Inferno, Cantos 3–27) 71
III.Pilgrim Dante Metamorphosed (Inferno, Cantos 28–34) 90
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Chapter Three. “Iohannes de Certaldo”: Self-Validation in
Boccaccio’s “Genealogies of the Gods” (ca. 1350–75) 126
I.The Allegoria Mitologica (1332–34) of Naples: Boccaccio’s
Personalized Ovid 138
II.The Genealogie Deorum Gentilium: Boccaccio’s Quest for Authority
in Epic Mythography 144
III.At Certaldo: Boccaccio’s Unfinished Commentary on Dante
(1373–74) 196
Chapter Four. Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea
(1399–1401): A Feminized Commentary on Ovid 206
I.Christine de Pizan Anti-Rose: Évrart de Conty and Finding a Female
Voice 212
II.Righting the Rose: The Othea’s Moralized and
Christianized Ovid 244
III.Othea, Minerva, and Other Mythological Women:
Humanizing Ovid 258
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Chapter Five. Christine de Pizan’s Illuminated Women in the Cité des
Dames (1405) 272
I.From Othea and Proba to “Je, Cristine,” Une Clere Femme 281
II.Reading Boccaccio: Learned Women, Sibyls, and
“Women Made Famous by Coincidence” 299
III.Arms and the Woman: Honorat Bovet, Jean de Meun, and
Minerva in Le Livre des Fais d’Armes et de Chevalerie (1410) 352
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Chapter Six. Coluccio Salutati’s Hercules as Vir Perfectus: Justifying
Seneca’s Hercules Furens in De Laboribus Herculis (1378?–1405) 363
I.Reading Senecan Tragedies: The Origins of Salutati’s
De Laboribus Herculis 371
II.Aeneas’s Failed Descent into Virgil’s Underworld:
The Pythagorean Y 374
III.The Influential Boethian Descents: Hercules versus Orpheus,
Ulysses, and Amphiaraus 382
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Conclusion 420
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Chapter Seven. Cristoforo Landino’s “Judgment of Aeneas”
in the Disputationes Camaldulenses (1475) 396
I.Petrarch’s Neoplatonic Aeneas, Vir Perfectus 398
II.Landino’s Medievalized Aeneas and the Three Goddesses 405
Notes 425
Bibliography 539
Index 613