Excelsa monarchia: Alexander the Great in Italian Narrative Poems (14th- 16th centuries)

Michele Campopiano

doi:10.18352/incontri.9324

Excelsa monarchia: Alexander the Great in Italian Narrative Poems (14th- 16th centuries)

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Michele Campopiano University of York – Center for Medieval Studies King’s Manor York, Y01 7EP (UK)

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https://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.9324

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Narrative poems, ottava rima, Alexander the Great

Abstract

Excelsa monarchia

Alessandro Magno nei poemi narrativi italiani (secoli XIV-XVI)

Alessandro Magno, probabilmente la più popolare figura di monarca nell’Europa medievale, è anche la figura centrale di quattro poemi in ottava rima, uno schema metrico usato in Italia dal XIV secolo per la composizione di poemi narrativi. Questi poemi sono basati su fonti diverse, da Quilichino da Spoleto a Curzio Rufo. Questo articolo mostra come gli autori di questi poemi diedero rappresentazioni differenti di un monarca mostrato in ogni caso come esemplare. La figura di Alessandro è adattata a differenti generi narrativi basati sull’ottava, rivolti à un pubblico differente. Differenze di genere si traducono in differenti rappresentazioni ideologiche della figura di Alessandro Magno che è modificata a secondo dei diversi contesti politico-sociali.

Author Biography

Michele Campopiano, University of York – Center for Medieval Studies King’s Manor York, Y01 7EP (UK)

Michele Campopiano studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale of Pisaunder the supervision of Marco Tangheroni and Armando Petrucci. He is currentlyLecturer in Medieval Latin Literature at the University of York, United Kingdom. He is amember of the research team ‘La création d’un mythe d'Alexandre le Grand dans leslittératures européennes (XIe siècle-début XVIe siècle)’. He is also a member of theCentre for Medieval Literature (York-Odense). He is also working with Guy Geltner(University of Amsterdam) on the research project Cultural Memory and Identity in theLate Middle Ages: the Franciscans of Mount Zion in Jerusalem and the Representation ofthe Holy Land (1333-1516) funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor hetWetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO).

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2013-12-05

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Campopiano, M. (2013) “Excelsa monarchia: Alexander the Great in Italian Narrative Poems (14th- 16th centuries)”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 28(2), pp. 56–65. doi: 10.18352/incontri.9324.

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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2013): Politics and Culture in the Italian Middle Ages

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