Humanist Comedies

Informationen zum Autor Gary R. Grund is Professor of English Literature, Rhode Island College. Klappentext The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo Vergerio's "Paulus" (ca. 1390), "Philodoxeos fabula" (1424) by Leon Battista Alberti, "Philogenia et Epiphebus" (ca. 1440) by Ugolino Pisani, "Chrysis" (1444) by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Tommaso Medio's "Epirota" (1483) span nearly the entire period and are a valuable gauge of its changing literary tastes, tastes nourished by the ancient comic drama of Plautus and Terence. While the earliest of the humanist comedies seem almost medieval in their moralism, the didacticism of the pulpit is cleverly seasoned with the unabashed realism of the brothel to produce a mixture that looks forward to the more modern, sophisticated comedies written in the vernacular during the Cinquecento. Zusammenfassung Collected here, Vergerio's Paulus, Philodoxeos fabula by Alberti, Philogenia et Epiphebus by Pisani, Chrysis by Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Medio’s Epirota span nearly the entire Quattrocento and are a valuable gauge of its changing literary tastes, tastes nourished by the ancient comic drama of Plautus and Terence.

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• Authors: GRUND, Gary R. Grund, Gary R. (EDT) Grund
• Assisted by: Gary R Grund (Editor), Gary R. Grund (Editor), Gary R Grund (Translation), Gary R. Grund (Translation), Grund Gary R. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2005
• EAN: 9780674017443
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01744-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval