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Il fiore-Detto d'amore. Nuova ediz.
"Il Fiore" e il "Detto d'Amore" segnano il debutto letterario del giovane Dante Alighieri e provano il talento singolare di un autore capace, da un lato, di rivaleggiare con un recente "classico" francese, il "Roman de la Rose", del quale offre un libero adattamento secondo due chiavi stilistiche diverse (comico-parodistica nel "Fiore, verbalmente preziosa nel "Detto"); e, dall'altro, di omaggiare e insieme superare i maestri riconosciuti della sua generazione, Brunetto Latini, Guittone d'Arezzo e Guido Guinizzelli. "Il Fiore", in particolare, racconta il tentativo dell'Amante/narratore di "cogliere il fiore" della donna amata; con la sua salda architettura compositiva e la grande varietà espressiva, costituisce un precedente necessario per la monumentale costruzione della "Commedia", un vero e proprio "ritratto dell'artista da giovane".
- GenresPoetry
336 pages, Paperback
Published February 16, 2021
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Dante Alighieri
4,465 books6,224 followersDante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation.
Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries as well. The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. By 1289 in the battle of Campaldino the Ghibellines largely disappeared from Florence. Peace, however, did not insue. Instead, the Guelf party divided between the Whites and the Blacks (Dante was a White Guelf). The Whites were more opposed to Papal power than the Blacks, and tended to favor the emperor, so in fact the preoccupations of the White Guelfs were much like those of the defeated Ghibellines. In this divisive atmosphere Dante rose to a position of leadership. in 1302, while he was in Rome on a diplomatic mission to the Pope, the Blacks in Florence seized power with the help of the French (and pro-Pope) Charles of Valois. The Blacks exiled Dante, confiscating his goods and condemning him to be burned if he should return to Florence.
Dante never returned to Florence. He wandered from city to city, depending on noble patrons there. Between 1302 and 1304 some attempts were made by the exiled Whites to retrieve their position in Florence, but none of these succeeded and Dante contented himself with hoping for the appearance of a new powerful Holy Roman Emperor who would unite the country and banish strife. Henry VII was elected Emperor in 1308, and indeed laid seige to Florence in 1312, but was defeated, and he died a year later, destroying Dante's hopes. Dante passed from court to court, writing passionate political and moral epistles and finishing his Divine Comedy, which contains the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. He finally died in Ravenna in 1321.
Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries as well. The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. By 1289 in the battle of Campaldino the Ghibellines largely disappeared from Florence. Peace, however, did not insue. Instead, the Guelf party divided between the Whites and the Blacks (Dante was a White Guelf). The Whites were more opposed to Papal power than the Blacks, and tended to favor the emperor, so in fact the preoccupations of the White Guelfs were much like those of the defeated Ghibellines. In this divisive atmosphere Dante rose to a position of leadership. in 1302, while he was in Rome on a diplomatic mission to the Pope, the Blacks in Florence seized power with the help of the French (and pro-Pope) Charles of Valois. The Blacks exiled Dante, confiscating his goods and condemning him to be burned if he should return to Florence.
Dante never returned to Florence. He wandered from city to city, depending on noble patrons there. Between 1302 and 1304 some attempts were made by the exiled Whites to retrieve their position in Florence, but none of these succeeded and Dante contented himself with hoping for the appearance of a new powerful Holy Roman Emperor who would unite the country and banish strife. Henry VII was elected Emperor in 1308, and indeed laid seige to Florence in 1312, but was defeated, and he died a year later, destroying Dante's hopes. Dante passed from court to court, writing passionate political and moral epistles and finishing his Divine Comedy, which contains the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. He finally died in Ravenna in 1321.
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January 10, 2026
我觉得一点也不像但丁（。但另一方面我也承认，想象它仍可能是但丁的作品，确实也颇为诱人。所以或许对很多人来说，这个问题一直保持悬置状态才是最好的，这让我们似乎可以同时不太合法地享有两方面的优势，相比之下任何最终的结论都将是某种损失。（在我看来Il Fiore的作者有很高的热情但不怎么动脑子，而且他和语言的关系很冷漠。然而导读说得没错，这一切都取决于你如何建构但丁的形象，如果你像孔蒂尼一样认为但丁最核心的特征是实验精神而不是，比如说，自我反思，那把它放进作品序列就没什么奇怪的。另外正如De Robertis所说，曼佐尼的最早期作品和他之后的作品也没有什么相似之处。因为曼佐尼是一个经历了“荡子回头”的作家。谁敢说但丁就一定不是呢？）
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