Selected Poems and Prose

Guittone D'Arezzo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781487501242 (ISBN)

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The poems and prose included in this volume are emblematic of the two phases of Guittone's career: he first achieved fame as a secular love poet but following his conversion in the 1260s he became a renowned religious poet

Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; the more learned and gifted Dante Alighieri.

The poems and prose included in this volume are emblematic of the two phases of Guittone’s career: he first achieved fame as a secular love poet but following his conversion in the 1260s he became a renowned religious poet. Guittone’s artistic reputation commanded the highest respect. Even Dante’s beloved Guinizzelli and Cavalcanti never enjoyed any such fame in their lifetime. Antonello Borra presents a critical introduction to Guittone’s works with a selection of his poems and letters in facing-page Italian and English translation. While Dante repeatedly condemned Guittone, recent scholarship has re-evaluated his importance and placed his work in the context of his predecessors, the Provençal troubadours and the poets of the Sicilian school. This latest volume in the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library contains the first significant edition of Guittone’s works available in English translation.

Guittone d'Arezzo (1235-1294) was a Tuscan poet and the founder of the Tuscan School. He was an acclaimed secular love poet before his conversion in the 1260s, when he became a religious poet. In 1256, he was exiled from Arezzo due to his Guelf sympathies. Antonello Borra teaches Italian language and literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Linguistics at the University of Vermont.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Friar Guittone: Letters

Friar Guittone: Moral and Religious Canzoni

Guittone d’Arezzo: Love Canzoni

Guittone d’Arezzo: Teachings on Love

Friar Guittone: Cycles on Vices and Virtues

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Übersetzer	Antonello Borra
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781487501242 / 9781487501242
Zustand	Neuware