Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

John Freccero is internationally renowned for his scholarship on Dante, Petrarch, Macchiavelli, and other authors. All the authors in this Festschrift are former students of Freccero. All the articles appertain to Italian literature - from Dennis Costa's literary analysis of Bonaventure's Itinerarium to Patricia Parker's tracing of the State of Maryland's medieval Italian motto back through its English Renaissance sources. Many pieces are concerned with Dante directly (Kleiner, Schnapp, Jacoff, Cornish, Ginsberg, Hawkins, Chiarenza), and several others dealing with medieval and Renaissance Italian subjects do so indirectly (Costa, Stephens, Quint). Two are concerned with pre-modern cultural and literary implications of the history of science (Stewart, Reeves); the remainder trace the afterlife of medieval or Renaissance Italian motifs in modern culture (Parker, West, Marcus).A Cornish is the author of 'Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies)', published 2000 under ISBN 9782503509068 and ISBN 2503509061.