Loredana Chines
primarily deals him with medieval, humanistic and Renaissance
literature, in the particular perspective of the tradition of the
comment to the classics, but paying a particular attention to a
more generlaes didactic routine of the Italian literature. Its jobs
place in the methodological furrow of the hold connection between
philology and criticism, but she is also fond of the dialogue of
literary text with other disciplines, first of all with figurative
arts.
Loredana Chines is
assembled on the peculiar aspects of the most unexplored Latin
humanism, in the variegated and sincretic forms that characterize
it. From this interest come the essays on the philosophical poetry
of the Hymnis naturales of Michael Marullo but also the
investigations on the Emilian Humanism, on the wake of the
methodological lines given by of Carlo Dionisotti and the pioneer
studies of Ezio Raimondi. They place in this circle a lot of papers
on the Bolognese Humanism, culminated in the two monographs (The
Readers of rhetoric and humanae litterae [.] 1992) and (You word of
the ancient ones. Humanism emiliano between school and poetry,
1998). On the other hand the importance of the Emilian Humanism has
been investigated really beginning from the most important lines of
the literary genre of comment, that has covered a primary role in
the affirmation of the
autonomy and of the dignity of the literary science. From the
awareness that in such trial an indisputable a central moment is
represented by the lesson of Petrarch, derives the systematic
investigations on the different forms of the production of Petrarch
that have stirred in different directions and they have conducted:
to) to some contributions on the vulgar Petrarch's works (see for
istance the essay about Petrarch in Breviario dei classici
italiani and the anthology edited by Mondadori Petrarca,
Literature directed by Ezio Raimondi, Milan, Bruno Mondatori 2005);
b) to the analysis of central themes in the poetic of Petrarch,
very succeesful in Europe (asee the monographs I veli del poeta
Roma, Carocci, 2000 and; Petrarchismo. Un
modello di poesia per l'Europa, a cura di L. Chines, vol. I,
Roma, Bulzoni, 2006; Di selva in selva ratto mi trasformo,
Carocci, 2009); c) to the investigation of the mechanisms of the
relationship among creative originality and 'intertestualità' in
the works by Petrarch, fathomed in relationship to the activity of
the Petrarch as 'esegeta, postillatore and bibliofilo', as it shows
the job on the notes of Petrarch (Per Petrarca e
Claudiano, in Verso il Centenario. Atti del Seminario di
Bologna 24-25 settembre 2001. «Quaderni petrarcheschi» XI, a
cura di L. Chines e P. Vecchi Galli, Firenze, Le Lettere 2004, pp.
43-71). The studies on Petrarch as latin writer, debtor to a method
that strictly connects philology and criticism, has found in
the Lettere
dell'Inquietudine (Roma, Carocci, 2004) a moment of particular
meaning, for the methodological perspective with which Petrarch
author of letters in prose and in verses shows his own more
suggestive and "modern" faces,
in the dialogue with the models and the sources that the
introduction and the notes of comment they show. In the last years
the two volumes dedicated to Petrarch (Le Monnier, 2013) and Leon
Battista Alberti (Bur 2012) confirm the wish to conjugate the
perspective of the search with that of the didactic divulgation of
the most remarkable authors of the Humanism.
