Piero Boitani

Biographic Data

ID691711
NAMEPiero Boitani
GIVEN NAMESPiero
FAMILY NAMEBoitani
SIGNATUREBOITANI P
AFFILIATIONSSapienza University of Rome
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Timaeus in Paradise

    Piero Boitani, Jane WilkinsonBOOKTimaeus in Paradise2025

  • La poésie des étoiles

    Piero Boitani, Fanny FellayARTICLEÉtudes de lettres2021References: 1

    Cette étude entend délivrer une vue panoramique de l’imaginaire cosmique élaboré par l’humanité depuis les temps préhistoriques. Il peut être reconstitué principalement par les arts visuels, la musique et la littérature, en particulier la poésie. Les images de la lune et des étoiles reflètent les croyances scientifiques et religieuses (par exemple dans la Bible), mais y ajoutent aussi une touche «sentimentale» et un plaisir esthétique avec lesque…

  • Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    Open AccessJames L Kugel, Sidney H Griffith et al.BOOKInterpreting Scriptures in…2016

    This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…

  • The Gospel According to Shakespeare

    Piero Boitani, Vittorio Montemaggi et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2015

    Boitani, Piero. The Gospel According to Shakespeare. Trans. Vittorio Montemaggi and Rachel Jacoff. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015, pp. 5-201), on Érudit

  • The Gospel according to Shakespeare

    Piero Boitani, Vittorio Montemaggi et al.BOOKGospel According to Shakespeare2014

  • Dante et l’Antiquité

    Piero BoitaniARTICLEComptes-rendus des séances de l…2010

  • The Folly of Poetry

    Open AccessPiero BoitaniARTICLEComparative Critical Studies2008References: 1

    What is more foolish, the poet or poetry? Why should a poet be mad and a scientist rational and wise? There was a time, in ancient Greece, when the scientist and the poet were one and the same person: the scientist, e.g. Empedocles, naturally expressed himself in verse, and even accounting for Aristotle’s caution that if you put Herodotus into verse that still is not poetry, no one in early Greece would have thought of a natural philosopher as a …

  • Chaucer's Italian Tradition . Warren Ginsberg

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Medieval Futures

    John Burrow, Rhiannon Purdie et al.EDITORBOOKMedieval Futures2000

  • Chaucerian Tragedy. Henry Ansgar Kelly

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum2000

  • The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages. Penelope Reed Doob

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum1993

  • Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy." . Karla Taylor

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum1992

  • The European Tragedy of Troilus

    Derek Pearsall, Piero BoitaniARTICLEThe Yearbook of English Studies1992Cited by: 2

  • Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    Piero Boitani, Kevin Brownlee et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1991

  • Before the Knight's Tale

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum1990

  • The Cambridge Chaucer Companion

    Joseph Hornsby, Piero Boitani et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1988

    Note on the text 1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm 2. Chaucer's continental inheritance: the early poems and Troilus and Criseyde David Wallace 3. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Pietro Boitani 4. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert 5. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale Jill Mann 6. The Canterbury Tales I…

  • Chaucer and the Italian Trecento

    R A Shoaf, Piero BoitaniARTICLEItalica1987

  • Chaucer and the Poets

    Piero BoitaniARTICLESpeculum1986

  • Prosatori Negri Americani del Novecento

    James Woodress, Piero BoitaniARTICLEAmerican Literature1975