Anthony Nussmeier
Chair of Modern Languages and Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Dallas, specializing in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature with publications on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
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Jul 9, 2025 • 49min
Medieval Literature VIII: Dante and Boccaccio
Anthony Nussmeier, Chair of Modern Languages and Italian scholar of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, dives into Dante’s innovations in the Commedia and why it still resonates. He traces Dante’s sources, political tensions, and his shaping of the Italian vernacular. Then he explores Boccaccio’s Decameron, its everyday realism after the Black Death, and his turn to classical humanism.
