Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
Regular price
€47.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Nicolino Applauso
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Nicolino Applauso
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSBB
Category=DSC
Category=DSK
Category=WH
Cecco Angiolieri
COP=United States
Dante
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Divine Comedy
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_humour
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
Medieval humor
Medieval politics
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781498567800
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 153 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Nicolino Applauso is visiting assistant professor of Italian at Loyola University Maryland.
