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Francesco Berni
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Francesco Berni
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Francesco Berni
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Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic
This book reproduces, with slight alterations, the first half of a doctoral thesis presented to the University of Cambridge in 1978. What the book offers is a comprehensive, even if not actually exhaustive, account of the corrective principles which underlie Berni's rewriting of Boiardo's epic. It is therefore deliberately conceived as a study of the specific motives for Berni's intervention rather than of the aesthetic results that derive from it. The chapters comprise; Phonology, Morphology, Grammar, Syntax, Versification, Lexis, Cliche, Propriety, and The Mechanics of Reconstruction.
Dialogo Contra i Poeti
This new and exciting study is the first scholarly critical edition and the first ever translation into English of Berni's "Dialogue Against Poets." The original publication of the dialogue in 1526 set it historically in the highly charged context of Rome and the court of the Medici pope, Clement VII. Not only is Berni presented here with reference to his historical and literary status, but other contemporary figures are also sketched against the politico-cultural background of Rome in the 1520s: the humanist poet, secretary, and envoy to Henry VII, Giovanni Battista Sanga; Bishop Giovan Matteo Giberti, Clement's datary and Berni's patron at the time of composition of the dialogue; the notor...
Francesco Berni
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Francesco Berni
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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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