Includes bibliographical references and index.
The invective genre in Dante and his contemporaries : an introduction -- The role of invective in medieval Tuscany -- Rustico Filippi of Florence and the Guelph and Ghibelline wars -- Cecco Angiolieri of Siena : blame and parody under the Governo dei Nove -- War propaganda, acti…
"This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante's masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about im…
"This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante's masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about im…