- PII
- S241377150000495-7-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S0000495-7-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume 76 / Issue 4
- Pages
- 26-33
- Abstract
- We examine the traits and evolution of the vernacular epistolary genre in medieval Italy. A comparison with ancient epistles, on the one hand, and with Petrarch’s humanistic heritage, on the other, shows that the medieval letter was “private” and individual in nature as opposed to “public” ancient letters and “literary-individualistic” Renaissance (or humanistic) correspondence. Analyzing the collections of letters of the 13th-century poet Guittone d’Arezzo and the 14th-century religious and public figures Giovanni dalle Celle, Giovanni Colombini and Catherine of Siena, as well as 14th-century “commercial correspondence”, we describe the characteristic content and the linguistic and cultural aspects of this genre in the Middle Ages.
- Keywords
- epistolary genre, Guittone d’Arezzo, medieval religious literature, Catherine of Siena, medieval commercial correspondence
- Date of publication
- 01.07.2017
- Year of publication
- 2017
- Number of purchasers
- 4
- Views
- 1334
RAS History & PhilologyИзвестия Российской Академии наук. Серия литературы и языка Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka
- ISSN (Print) 1605-7880
- ISSN (Online) 2413-7715
THE EPISTOLARY GENRE IN ITALIAN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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