Descripción del proyecto
El contexto cultural de la época de Dante
A finales de la Edad Media en Italia, la literatura se escribía en latín. El papel de Dante en el uso de la lengua vernácula en la literatura fue fundamental. Pero, ¿cuál fue el contexto cultural en el que se formó Dante? En concreto, ¿qué textos vernáculos se utilizaron para la educación secular de los habitantes de la Toscana? El proyecto VERTEXCULT, financiado con fondos europeos, intentará realizar la primera investigación sistemática sobre el contexto cultural en el noroeste de la Toscana y Florencia durante el período comprendido entre 1250 y 1321 (el año de la muerte de Dante). El proyecto identificará qué textos literarios vernáculos circulaban entre la clase dominante en ese período y determinará las condiciones culturales existentes.
Objetivo
The project undertakes the first systematic investigation of the vernacular literary texts used for the intellectual education of secular people in north-western Tuscany between the half of the 13th and the first twenty years of the 14th century in order to clarify the cultural context of Dante’s formation in Florence, on which almost nothing is known yet. While the lyrical poetry in late-medieval vernacular has been much studied, the doctrinal literature (both in poetry and prose) flourished in Italy in the same years is often unpublished and almost never made the object of critical studies, nor its function was connected to the formation of secular intellectuals such as Dante. The project aims to define as accurately as possible the vernacular, namely, the non-Latin, cultural context and texts circulation in Florence and north-western Tuscany during the span of about seventy years, between the death of the empereor Frederick II (1250), which ideally marks the end of the Sicilian Poetic School and the displacement of the fulcrum of the Italian vernacular literature in the “municipal” Tuscany, and the death of Dante Alighieri (1321). The chronological limits depend on the crucial role of the Florentine poet, who within this historical context had reached the highest cultural dignity of the vernacular as the literary language of the legal-notary ruling class before Petrarch and Humanism marked a radical return to the Latin, indeed parallel to the decline of the figure of the “municipal intellectual” (Dante himself and other distinguished members of this specific secular and bourgeois environment as the mercant Chiaro Davanzati, the banker Monte Andrea, the judge Bono Giamboni, the notary Brunetto Latini, and the public officials Guido Cavalcanti and Dino Compagni).
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
30123 Venezia
Italia