I Cantici di Fidenzio di Camillo Scroffa e la pluralità dei mondi
Il canone classico, l'eredità del Petrarca e la tradizione giocosa
By (author) Katharina Hartmann Series edited by Uwe Baumann Series edited by Marc Laureys Series edited by Winfried Schmitz
Hardback (Published)
(February 2013)
ISBN: 9783899719772
6.42 x 9.65 inches
Price: $82.00
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Entschlusselung des mundus significans der Cantici di Fidenzio von Camillo Scroffa
In the sixteenth-century Cantici di Fidenzio, unhappy teacher Fidenzio sings of his disastrous love for one of his students. As may be expected of a Renaissance teacher of Latin, he drew on both ancient and contemporary literary models, from Virgil over Petrarch to Berni, in order to enhance his homosexual desire and his poems with appropriate auctoritas. Fidenzio’s language (a morpho-syntactical mix of Latin and Italian), the exaggerated expectations, and the implied consequences cannot easily be understood from the perspective of today’s readers: for the contemporary audience the Cantici, teeming with citations and allusions, certainly were a hilarious read, we today need further explanations in order to fully grasp the meaning of Fidenzio’s verses. For the first time, this study offers a bridge into the Cantici’s world and allows a more wholesome understanding of this great work of the Italian Renaissance.
- By (author) Katharina Hartmann
- Series edited by Uwe Baumann
- Series edited by Marc Laureys
- Series edited by Winfried Schmitz
"Hartmann's volume is overall a serious contribution to an important aspect of Italian Renaissance poetry." -- Armando Maggi, Renaissance Quarterly
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