Against the Educational Value of Poetry
On Girolamo Savonarola’s Apologeticus de ratione poeticae artis
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/6643Keywords:
poetry, prisca theologia, prophecy, Marsilio Ficino, aestheticsAbstract
In the 1490s the poet Ugolino Verino sent a letter to Girolamo Savonarola, whom he greatly admired, to defend the benefit derived from true poetry, that is, poetry composed by Christian poets, without any reference to the obscenity of Paganism. In 1491 Savonarola wrote the Apologeticus de rationae poeticae artis to reply to Ugolino and to deny any contamination between poetry and theology. This essay analyses the Apologeticus, to demonstrate that this book can be read as the first step of Girolamo Savonarola’s cultural battle against the ideology of prisca theologia proposed by Ficino.
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2020-01-22
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