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

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Title
"The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in fourteenth-century Italy"
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David G. Lummus
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2020
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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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 defences 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"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 226-252

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