The reception of troubadour poetry in sixteenth-century Italy, from the Questione della Lingua to Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s Arte del Rimare

Feriozzi, F

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The reception of troubadour poetry in sixteenth-century Italy, from the Questione della Lingua to Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s Arte del Rimare

Abstract:: This thesis discusses the rediscovery of troubadour poetry among Italian intellectuals of the sixteenth century focusing on how such activity connects with the debate on the vernacular known as the questione della lingua. It does so by examining the activity of six authors, to each of whom a chapter is dedicated: Angelo Colocci, Pietro Bembo, Mario Equicola, Lodovico Castelvetro, Benedetto Varchi, and Giammaria Barbieri. Their relationship with Occitan poetry is examined chiefly through the study of the manuscript sources they knew and the ways in which they situated the Occitan literary tradition in their own literary and ideological systems. The thesis demonstrates how the interest for troubadour poetry chiefly stemmed from the study of Petrarch and Dante and was interpreted by applying interpretative schemes developed within the questione della lingua. In turn, the thesis shows how the evolving knowledge of Occitan had a role in shaping these linguistic theories and the perceptions of the six authors studied with regard to the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages, as well as providing the authors with cultural and literary authority.

This thesis brings together in a single monographic form the many discoveries made by scholarship after the last major contribution on the matter (published in 1911), and at the same time offers a variety of new findings, including a reconsideration of the use of Occitan by Angelo Colocci, a re-evaluation of Varchi’s knowledge and interest for matters of Occitan poetry, and new findings regarding Castelvetro, Varchi, and Barbieri’s Occitan sources.

The thesis contains, in the appendix, a critical edition of a fundamental treatise representing one of the major contributions to Occitan studies in the sixteenth century, that is, Barbieri’s Arte del rimare. The edition draws upon the autograph manuscripts and the 1790 printed edition and follows the principles of authorial philology.

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Feriozzi, F. (2023). The reception of troubadour poetry in sixteenth-century Italy, from the Questione della Lingua to Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s Arte del Rimare [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford.

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Feriozzi, F. The Reception of Troubadour Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Italy, from the Questione Della Lingua to Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s Arte Del Rimare. 2023. University of Oxford, PhD thesis.

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Feriozzi, F. 2023. “The Reception of Troubadour Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Italy, from the Questione Della Lingua to Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s Arte Del Rimare.” PhD thesis, University of Oxford.
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