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Le insidie dell'allegoria: Ermolao Barbaro il Vecchio e la lezione degli antichi

2003; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.33137/q.i..v24i1.9256

ISSN

2293-7382

Autores

Maria Esposito Frank, John Monfasani,

Tópico(s)

Classical Antiquity Studies

Resumo

This is a study of the two Orationes contra Poetas which the Venetian patrician and bishop ofVerona, Ermolao Barbaro the Elder (1410-71) published in 1455 or the years immediately thereafter in reaction to a letter of the Franciscan friar Bartolomeo of Lendinara.Sometimes viewed as an obscurantist attack on poetry and pagan literature, Barbaro s orations are in fact, from my own reading of them, a far more clear headed recitation of the facts of matter, than the illusions expressed by fra Bartolomeo.A pupil of Guarino Veronese and

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