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Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society
"This work examines the ways in which the culture and society of the Middle Ages impacted on the works of the Sienese poet, Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312). It analyzes how Angiolieri's poetry conformed to medieval notions and practices of comicality. The study explores the means by which Cecco satirized important cultural movements of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, such as love literature and the ascendant Franciscan order. In addition, it looks at his relations with other writers of the day, including three insulting sonnets addressed to Dante Alighieri. The text shows that Angiolieri was not an isolated, ""bizarre"" figure, as some early 20th century scholars have described him, but rather an author in step with his times."
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Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society
"This work examines the ways in which the culture and society of the Middle Ages impacted on the works of the Sienese poet, Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312). It analyzes how Angiolieri's poetry conformed to medieval notions and practices of comicality. The study explores the means by which Cecco satirized important cultural movements of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, such as love literature and the ascendant Franciscan order. In addition, it looks at his relations with other writers of the day, including three insulting sonnets addressed to Dante Alighieri. The text shows that Angiolieri was not an isolated, ""bizarre"" figure, as some early 20th century scholars have described him, but rather an author in step with his times."
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Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society

Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society

by Fabian Alfie
Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society
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Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society

Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society

by Fabian Alfie

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"This work examines the ways in which the culture and society of the Middle Ages impacted on the works of the Sienese poet, Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312). It analyzes how Angiolieri's poetry conformed to medieval notions and practices of comicality. The study explores the means by which Cecco satirized important cultural movements of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, such as love literature and the ascendant Franciscan order. In addition, it looks at his relations with other writers of the day, including three insulting sonnets addressed to Dante Alighieri. The text shows that Angiolieri was not an isolated, ""bizarre"" figure, as some early 20th century scholars have described him, but rather an author in step with his times."

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ISBN-13: 9781351196697
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/02/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 517 KB

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Fabian Alfie

Table of Contents

Introduction The Trouble with Cecco: The 'State of the Question' and Difficulties Inherent in a Study of Angiolieri; I: Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri and the Comic Traditions; II: Love and Literature: Cecco Angiolieri's Relationship with the Amorous Lyric Traditions; III: Poverty and Poetry: Cecco Angiolieri's Position in the Evolution of a Vernacular Trope; IV: Insult and Injury: Vituperium in the Poetry of Cecco Angiolieri; V: Cecco, Simone Dante and Guelfo: Correspondence among Angiolieri's Poetry; VI: Fact or Fiction: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetic Self-Presentation
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