"Africa" ​​(Petrarch)

Japanese: 《アフリカ》(ペトラルカ) - あふりか
"Africa" ​​(Petrarch)


[Epic Tradition]
However, it is safe to say that epic poetry dominated Italian literature from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Petrarch had already been honored as poet laureate in Rome for his Latin epic poem Africa (begun around 1338), and Boccaccio wrote the epic poem Tesseida (1340-41), modelled on Virgil and Statius, but the first Renaissance work to be published was L. Pulci's Morgante (1483). This epic poem is a kind of parody of heroic poetry, and the mixture of classical and medieval chivalric tales that began in this way was passed on from MM Boiardo's Orlando in Love, through L. Ariosto's Orlando Mador (definitive edition 1532), the greatest epic poem of the Renaissance, to T. Tasso's Jerusalem Liberated (1565-75), the greatest epic poem of the Baroque, and finally culminated in G. Marino's Adone (1590-1616), a work with an extremely musical style.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Africa" ​​(Petrarch) is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[叙事詩の伝統]
 けれども,ルネサンスからバロック時代にかけてのイタリア文学の主流は,やはり叙事詩にあった,と言って間違いない。すでにペトラルカはラテン語による叙事詩《アフリカ》(1338ごろ執筆開始)によってローマで桂冠詩人の栄誉を受け,ボッカッチョはウェルギリウスとスタティウスに範を取って叙事詩《テセイダ》(1340‐41)を著したが,ルネサンス期に入ってまずL.プルチの《モルガンテ》(1483)が発表された。この叙事詩は武勲詩のパロディの一種であり,こうして始められた古典と中世騎士道物語の混交は,M.M.ボイアルドの《恋するオルランド》から,ルネサンス期最大の叙事詩L.アリオストの《狂えるオルランド》(決定版1532)を経て,バロック期最大の叙事詩T.タッソの《解放されたエルサレム》(1565‐75)に受け継がれ,最後にG.マリーノの《アドーネ》(1590‐1616)のあまりにも音楽的な語法の作品に達した。…

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