Italianistica. Nuova serie

Series | Italianistica. Nuova serie
Edited book | La tradizione prosimetrica in volgare da Dante a Bembo
Chapter | Esegesi pluriprospettica nel Comento de’ miei sonetti di Lorenzo de’ Medici

Esegesi pluriprospettica nel Comento de’ miei sonetti di Lorenzo de’ Medici

Abstract

This essay examines the relations between sonnets and exegetical prose in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s commentary on his own poetry. The Laurentian sonnets open up different horizons of philosophical references. The commentaries in prose increase the philosophical options that are substantiated in the sonnets. In so doing, they create a wide range of divergent interpretative paths. The Magnifico’s textual strategy is intended to work towards the cautious installation of Lorenzo’s political authority as that of a philosopher-king of the Platonic type, an operation whose presumptuousness in risky circumstances might be reduced by a(nti)platonic stratagems.


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Submitted: March 18, 2024 | Accepted: April 19, 2024 | Published July 17, 2024 | Language: it

Keywords SonnetRenaissanceMarsilio FicinoLyric poetryPhilosophyPlatonismProsimetrumCommentaryEarly Modern PeriodLorenzo de’ Medici


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