Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy
during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way
for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The
Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic
invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings
of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both
understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a
scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval
invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and
reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic
texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social,
political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political
invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a
humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual
targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring
medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco
Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study
unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from
Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in
English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the
medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of
Dante’s Comedy.
General
| Imprint: |
Lexington Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Release date: |
November 2019 |
| Authors: |
Nicolino Applauso
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| Dimensions: |
232 x 158 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
350 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4985-6778-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4985-6778-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781498567787 |
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