Italy, Oct. 18 -- Project Id: 75645

Description: Grant agreement ID: 637533

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Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 October 2015

End date

30 September 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 480 625

EU contribution

€ 1 480 625

Objective

This project will undertake the first systematic investigation of the various literary documents that circulated simultaneously in more than one language in Tuscany, and especially Florence, between the mid-13th Century and the beginning of 15th Century.

During that period, Florence was both a prominent literary centre in the vernacular, and home to a renewal of classical Latin eloquence. While both fields are well studied, their interaction remains larg...