Building the Canon through the Classics

Eloisa Morra, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2017) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet Studio, 2014: Special mention, Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015). In her research, she explores interdisciplinary issues at the crossroads of textual criticism and visual studies, classical reception, the Renaissance and its reception in the twentieth century.

• 1 IntroductionEloisa Morra2 Boccaccio as Homer: A Recently Discovered Self-portrait and the ‘modern’ CanonMaddalena Signorini3 In the Center of the Kaleidoscope: Ovidian Poetic Image and Boccaccio’s Self-Representation in De Mulieribus ClarisTalita Janine Juliani4 The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance CanonValentina Prosperi5 Politian: The Philologer as ArtistJaspreet Boparai6 Humanistic Biographies of Horace and His Inclusion in the Fifteenth-century Literary CanonGiacomo Comiati7 Editing Vernacular Classics in the Early Sixteenth Century: Ancient Models and Modern SolutionsCarlo Caruso8 Building the Canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci’s epigrammatari as a Test CaseNadia Cannata9 The Literary Canon and the Visual Arts: From the Three Crowns to Ariosto and TassoFederica Caneparo10 ‘Re-figuring’ Lucian of Samosata: Authorship and Literary Canon in Early Modern ItalyIrene FantappièIndex