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Buccio di Ranallo

Cronica

Edizione critica e commento a cura di Carlo De Matteis

HB pp. CLIV-452, € 77,00

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2008
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978-88-8450-257-5
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An "honorary poet of the Duecento", expression of "conservative borderlands" (like Angevin Abruzzo in the 14th century), according to Contini's acute definition, Buccio di Ranallo (1290/5-1363) is head, nevertheless, of a literary enterprise almost unique in medieval Italian literature, conferring a poetic character of great breadth to the chronicles of the events of a southern Italian commune from its origins until the death of the author. To the passivity of its choice of meter, the ancient quatrain of rhyming alexandrians, the poet from Aquila's Cronica counterposes the 'honor' of experimentation that contaminates various literary genres, grafting onto the trunk of the chansons de geste incandescent, rigorously documented material of a political and civil nature, at the service of the hortatory-didactic intent common to most of the contemporary chronicles. On the base of this noteworthy proof of originality concerning the literary form (which also includes a series of sonnets, also of politico-civil tone, contemporaneous with a thematic shift effected by a restricted group of poets from central-northern Italy), unfolds the rustic historical fresco of an urban community in its dramatic efforts at survival and affirmation over more than a century dense with political, military, and religious events, punctuated by natural catastrophes that prostrate social life and the daily existence of individuals without destroying their ever-resurgent vitality. With quick and essential outlines, Buccio succeeds in restoring the temporal and local color of an earlier age and in transmitting an image of elementary, basic, full-bodied proof that arrives amply at that of the better-known Roman and Florentine evidence. A century on from De Bartholomaeis' critical edition, this new edition offers a different and more careful reconstruction of the text on the basis of new evidence and for the accompaniment of exact annotations which define a renewed interpretation of the work.
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