Rustico Di Filippo and the Florentine Lyric Tradition

Download or read book Rustico Di Filippo and the Florentine Lyric Tradition written by Joan H. Levin and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rustico di Filippo, a Florentine poet of the generation before Dante, is known by and large as a poet of the jocose, or humorous, tradition. We tend not to know that Rustico was a major exponent of traditional love poetry. Unlike traditional literary history, this study relates Rustico to his contemporaries: Guittone d'Arezzo, Chiaro Davanzati, Monte Andrea and others. It also examines his influence on poets of the next generation: Dante Alighieri, Guido Cavalcanti and Cecco Angiolieri. By reading Rustico within the mainstream of the Italian lyric tradition, we begin to see him as a major poet.