The æsthetics of the false Paradoxical Encomium and Virgilian Allegoresis in Poggio Bracciolini’s De avaritia
- Publication type: Article from a collective work
- Collective work: Serio ludere. Sagesse et dérision à l’âge de l’Humanisme
- Author: Wulfram (Hartmut)
- Pages: 67 to 90
- Collection: Encounters, n° 481
- Series: Readings from the Latin Renaissance, n° 13
The Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini integrates the ancient tradition of the paradox encomium and the poetic allegoresis as two literary-argumentative components into his influential moral-philosophical dialogue about avarice (De avaritia, completed in 1429). The present study offers a number of close readings to examine the intrinsic value as well as functions, structures, pretexts and interconnections of the comprehensive pertinent passages.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-10569-5
- EAN: 9782406105695
- ISSN: 2261-1851
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10569-5.p.0067
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 12-21-2020
- Language: English
- Keyword: Humanisme, philosophie, art, Cicéron, allégorie
