Certame coronario October 1441
Posted: 19 Mar 2022, 12:19
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Certame coronario ...
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certame_coronario
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... was a literary contest in Florence in 1441 initiated by Leon Battista Alberti. It happened in October 1441. Actually I would like to know, what happened then precisely. "It happened in October 1441". That's not very precise.
Petrarca in 1341 became poetus laureatus. Actually it's just my suspicion, that this literary contest 1441 (100 years later) took place to honor him, but I didn't found a confirmation till now.
Here is the translation
One has to assume, that there was some Trionfi poem enthusiasm around 1439-41. But there seems to have been also a strong opposition, mainly from the side of the lovers of Latin language. This were naturally the conservative forces in the Florentine society and especially those, which had a profession based on the use of Latin language. For instance preachers and the administrators of the church generally.
Certame coronario ...
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certame_coronario
English translation by google.com
https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.go ... r_pto=wapp
... was a literary contest in Florence in 1441 initiated by Leon Battista Alberti. It happened in October 1441. Actually I would like to know, what happened then precisely. "It happened in October 1441". That's not very precise.
Petrarca in 1341 became poetus laureatus. Actually it's just my suspicion, that this literary contest 1441 (100 years later) took place to honor him, but I didn't found a confirmation till now.
Here is the translation
The Canzonieri and the Trionfi poem of Petrarca belonged to the vernacular poetry.The coronary Certame was a poetry competition in the vernacular conceived in 1441 in Florence by Leon Battista Alberti , under the patronage of Piero de 'Medici .
The intention was to demonstrate how the vernacular had full literary dignity and could also deal with the highest topics, in a period that was witnessing, with the flourishing of Humanism , a strong resumption of the use of Latin . Both well-known writers of the time and popular rhymers participated in the competition, which had a silver laurel wreath as a prize (hence the name), who had to compose texts on the theme " true friendship ". It took place on 22 October 1441 in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and was attended by a large audience, as well as a group of civil and religious authorities of the city.
The prize was not awarded to any of the speaking poets because the works were not considered worthy, but it was delivered by the ten apostolic secretaries of Eugene IV , as can be deduced from the Palatine code 215 of the National Library of Florence , to the church where the competition.
An anonymous protest was addressed to the jury , probably to be attributed to Alberti himself, in which the conservative position of traditional humanistic culture, notoriously adverse to the vulgar, was criticized. [1] The fact that the crown was not assigned to any of the poets in competition, in fact, testifies how the rehabilitation of the vernacular was not yet fully mature; however the coronary Certame is an indication of an ongoing and irreversible trend. According to Parronchi , who resumed a conference by Lanyi ( 1940 ), the statue of Donatello 's David may have been donated to the patron Medici as a thank you.
In the second half of the century the literary revival of the vernacular took place first in Florence: and it is no wonder, since in Florence vulgar literature had an illustrious and prestigious tradition, which could boast real classics, such as Dante , Petrarca and Boccaccio . The poets of the Medici circle , Lorenzo the Magnificent in the lead, refer to this tradition in search of models.
A precious document of this attention to the vulgar tradition is the so-called Aragonese Collection , an anthology of the first centuries of Tuscan poetry sent in 1476 by Lorenzo de 'Medici as a gift to Federico d'Aragona . The letter that serves as a preface is signed by Lorenzo, but it is almost certainly by Angelo Poliziano . In addition to Florence, however, the vulgar regains literary dignity in Ferrara with Matteo Maria Boiardo and Pietro Bembo , in Naples with Jacopo Sannazaro , Masuccio Salernitano and the Petrarchist poets.
The revival of the vernacular is also accompanied by a return to consolidated literary genres such as the love lyric of Petrarchist ancestry, the chivalrous narrative of Romance origin, the Boccaccio novel.
One has to assume, that there was some Trionfi poem enthusiasm around 1439-41. But there seems to have been also a strong opposition, mainly from the side of the lovers of Latin language. This were naturally the conservative forces in the Florentine society and especially those, which had a profession based on the use of Latin language. For instance preachers and the administrators of the church generally.