Title The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in fourteenth-century Italy / David G. Lummus

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature Cambridge studies in medieval literature. 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 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 Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2021) Subject Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Italy -- History and criticism Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 Poetry -- Authorship -- Social aspects Politics in literature. Humanism. humanism. Humanism Italian poetry Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Poetry -- Authorship -- Social aspects Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) Politics and literature Politics in literature Italy Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020022982 ISBN 9781108878050 1108878059 9781108880855 1108880851

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