Volgari Scelti: Select Poems: 58 (American University Studies, Series 2: Romance, Languages & Literature) - Hardcover

Riva, Bonvesin Da La

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820404276 ISBN 13: 9780820404271

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1987

Synopsis

The Italian master of the cuaderna vía is Bonvesin da la Riva (second half of the XIII cent.), a Milanese teacher deeply involved in the religious revival and the social changes of his time. Author also of Latin works (the prose of his De Magnalibus Mediolani and the distichs of his Vita Scholastica have already won the attention of Medievalists), he is especially noteworthy for his Volgari (poems in Old Milanese), whose monorhymed quatrains cover a thematic range of unusual breadth. A description of Hell and Paradise, the impassioned evocation of Christ''s suffering and death, a glorious Mariale where amazing «miracles» are narrated (conversion of Maria Egyptiaca included), a life of St. Alexis, dramatic Debates of religious and socio-political content, and, finally, a mini Book of Manners constitute the rich repertoire of this production.

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Review

-...Il Prof. Stefanini ha preparato un volume di cui c'era bisogno, e ha dato un apporto notevolissimo all'approfondimento della letteratura medievale e alla comprensione di Dante, delle sue concezioni e del suo simbolismo.- (Cesare Segre, Istituto di Filologia Romanza, Universita di Pavia, Italy)
-...this learned and elegant book ... is an important contribution because it enriches the canon of medieval authors and will, no doubt, stimulate further research.- (P.Cherchi, Speculum)"

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820404276
• ISBN 13: 9780820404271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 491