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Rustico Filippi, 'The Art of Insult'

Rustico Filippi, 'The Art of Insult' PDF Author: Fabian Alfie
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 178188157X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Book Description
Although he was a skilful author of courtly love lyrics, Rustico’s fame rests on another type of poetics altogether. At the time, he was credited with fathering a new branch of comic literature—insult. Of his 59 sonnets, 30 are insulting caricatures of fellow citizens, political figures, and Florentine women. Literary theorists had justified insult as a means to enforce public morality, but in the Italian tradition, no one had explored the artistic range of insulting literature before Rustico. After Rustico, insult was a central element of comic literature.