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Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society.

Publication: Italica
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 998 words
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Full Article Title: Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society.(Book Review)

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Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2001.

Fabian Alfie's book-length study of the prolific Sienese poet Cecco Angiolieri seeks to correct previous work on this poet in two major ways: to refute the notion that Cecco's poems present the poet himself, and to demonstrate that his poetry--and comic poetry generally--did not exist in isolation from the more serious literature of its time. Both are quite plausibly argued in a clear and accessible style.

With regard to the first matter, Alfie takes issue with critics who have read the poems as autobiographical statements, proposing that Cecco instead fashioned a persona of the good-for-nothing fellow. Thus out-of-character poems or those that seem to express different "facts" about the poet need not be subtracted from Cecco's attributed works (as they have sometimes been) but rather reveal the fictitious nature of the...

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