The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy / David G. Lum...
The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy / David G. Lum...
The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy / David G. Lummus.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/5052
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English
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Physical content
x, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
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.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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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 defences of poet...
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The city of poetry : imagining the civic role of the poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy / David G. Lummus.
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-252) and index.
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G 2020/5052
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74VKaJmWq8od
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJmWq8od
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ISBN
9781108839457
DDC
871.3093581
MMS ID
991024368719202626
