The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by Lummus, David G.

The City of Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108839457)

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The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by Lummus, David G.

The City of Poetry

$103.00
The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by Lummus, David G.

The City of Poetry

$103.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: David G. Lummus
ISBN-10: 1108839452
ISBN-13: 9781108839457
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2020
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

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