- Docente: Daniela Branca
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Course contents
The course presents how one of the most prominent figures of the Renaissance culture intended the relationship between poetry, philosophy and philology. Poliziano was himself a poet in Latin and Italian language, and he was, at the same time, a scholar with an extraordinary knowledge of ancient literature and civilization. Appointed professor of Latin and Greek texts in one of the most important centres of the Renaissance culture (the Studio of Florence, that is the University), involved in the political and cultural strategies of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent, Poliziano elaborated, between 1480 and 1492, a very original synthesis between humanistic scholarship and creative poetry.
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