The city of poetry: imagining the civic role of the poet in fourteenth-century Italy

What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio) who wrote in both Latin and the It...

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1. Verfasser: Lummus, David (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in medieval literature
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Zusammenfassung:What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio) who wrote in both Latin and the Italian vernacular. In readings of defenses of poetry, speeches and letters on public laurel-crowning ceremonies, and other theoretical and poetic texts, this book shows how these poets viewed their authorship of poetic works as a function of their engagement in a human community. Each poet represents a model of the poet as a public intellectual - a poet-theologian - who can intervene in public affairs thanks to his authority within texts. The City of Poetry provides a new historicized approach to understanding poetic culture in fourteenth-century Italy which reshapes long-standing Romantic views of poetry as a timeless and sublimely inspired form of discourse
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Albertino Mussato, Poet of the City -- Dante Alighieri, Poet without a City -- Francesco Petrarch, Poet beyond the City -- Giovanni Boccaccio, Poet for the City -- Epilogue. Coluccio Salutati and the Future of the City of poetry
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 261 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108878050
DOI:10.1017/9781108878050

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