IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 221: Perceptions of Florence, I: Florence - Earthly and Ideal City
Monday 9 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Darragh Greene, Trinity College Dublin |
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Moderator/Chair: | Darragh Greene, Trinity College Dublin |
Paper 221-a | Dante and Florence: Civic Pride, Exile, and Nostalgia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Philosophy, Political Thought |
Paper 221-b | Chaucer and Florence Revisited (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 221-c | Bruni's Isocrates: Greek Rhetoric in the Laudatio Urbis Florentinae (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
Abstract | This session considers various aspects of civic representations of Florence. It includes Italian and English material, and it stretches from Dante to the early 15th century. The movement from historical prototypes of the earthly city through allegory to a transcendent urban ideal will be explored by means of a collage of literary exemplars. The session charts a movement from Dante through Chaucer's encounter with John Hawkwood ending in the question of the Humanist Bruni's use of Greek rhetoric and Sophistic works in fashioning a representation of Florence. |