The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy

ISBN-13: 9781108813174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 276 str.

Indiana) Lummus David G. (University of Notre Dame

Opis

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Recenzje

'David Lummus' new book offers the first full-scale study of how four major poet-intellectuals from the fourteenth century – Mussato, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio – understood and represented their roles as poets within a civic context and engaged with imagined and real audiences communities. Lummus argues that these figures used their writings, above all their Latin poetry and other writings in defence of poetry, both to construct and to authorize their public and civic roles. A major scholarly achievement, Lummus' elegant book provides for the first time lucid and detailed accounts in English of the civic concerns of the four poets considered, and of their major Latin works, and of the dialogues, differentiations, and rewritings that we find in and between them.' Simon Gilson, Magdalen College, Oxford University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Albertino Mussato, Poet of the City; 2. Dante Alighieri, Poet without a City; 3. Francesco Petrarch, Poet beyond the City; 4. Giovanni Boccaccio, Poet for the City; Epilogue: Coluccio Salutati and the Future of the City of Poetry.