The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in fourteenth-century Italy / David G. Lummus.
Lummus, David| Call Number | 871/.3093581 |
| Author | Lummus, David, author. |
| Title | The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in fourteenth-century Italy / David G. Lummus. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge studies in medieval literature |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). |
| Contents | 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. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Subject | Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. HUMANISM. POLITICS IN LITERATURE. Poetry Authorship Social aspects. Politics and literature Italy History To 1500. Italian poetry To 1400 History and criticism. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Italy History and criticism. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). |
| Contents | 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. |
| Subject | Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. HUMANISM. POLITICS IN LITERATURE. Poetry Authorship Social aspects. Politics and literature Italy History To 1500. Italian poetry To 1400 History and criticism. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Italy History and criticism. |
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