Boccaccio’s Cartography of Poetry, or the Geocritical Navigation of the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods

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" Boccaccio’s Cartography of Poetry, or the Geocritical Navigation of the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods "
Morosini, Roberta

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	907649
Doc. No	:	LA3bf722mr
Title & Author	:	Boccaccio’s Cartography of Poetry, or the Geocritical Navigation of the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods [Article]\ Morosini, Roberta
Date	:	2018
Title of Periodical	:	UC Berkeley
Abstract	:	This essay offers a geocritical reading of <em>Boccaccio’s Genealogie deorum gentilium</em> for its unique combination of poetry and geography. The <em>Genealogy</em> features the poet’s journey through the Mediterranean Sea, and in particular through the Archipelago, the Aegean Sea, to describe places where the myths of the pagan gods and their progeny unfolded, with the end goal of establishing the veracity of poetry. In so doing, he adopts an empirical approach to the search of the truth of the myths, thereby making a cartography of the poetry, a unique humanistic space in which he rescues the relics of a shipwrecked past by mapping spaces and places of civilization.