Italy, Aug. 19 -- Project Id: 73208

Description: Grant agreement ID: 846958

Status

Grant agreement signed

Start date

1 September 2019

End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.3.2.

Overall budget:

€ 255 768

EU contribution

€ 255 768

Objective

The project undertakes the first systematic investigation of the vernacular literary texts used for the intellectual education of secular people in north-western Tuscany between the half of the 13th and the first twenty years of the 14th century in order to clarify the cultural context of Dante's formation in Florence, on which almost nothing is known yet. While the lyrical poetry in late-medieval vernacular has been much studied, the doctrinal literature (both in poe...