Albertino Mussato from Philologist to Historian

Authors

  • Marino Zabbia Università degli Studi di Torino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5460

Keywords:

Chronicles, Epic Poetry, Epistolography, Pre-Humanism of Padua, Albertino Mussato

Abstract

The essay reconstructs the cultural milieu within which Albertino Mussato nurtured his vocation as a chronicler. Trained in the Latin classics according to the example of Lovato Lovati, Mussato used the knowledge he acquired from these texts to become himself an author of both verse and prose. His writings in verse enjoyed immediate, widespread, and (in certain cases) long-lasting fortune. Conversely, his long Chronicles written in prose, even if widely read and admired by his contemporaries, were never considered as a historiographical model worthy of imitation.

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Published

2018-02-06

How to Cite

Zabbia, Marino. 2018. “Albertino Mussato from Philologist to Historian”. Reti Medievali Journal 19 (1):571-98. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5460.

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Essayes in Monographic Section - 2

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