The Florentine Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381-c.1451), a member of a fallen branch of his family, had a life troubled by imprisonment for debt. Desire for justice and revenge informs his writings. Nuova opera is a heterogeneous text: punctuated by short stories and anecdotes, at the crossroads of historical chronicle and moral satire, it narrates and comments on the events that involved Florence in the years 1440-1447. Reminiscent of Dante and later profitably read by Machiavelli, the author denounces the bloody oppositions between factions and the degeneration into vice of his city, as well as the spreading of violence and tyranny throughout the Italian peninsula, in opposition to Filippo Maria Visconti, Francesco Sforza, Cosimo de’ Medici. This new critical and annotated edition guides the reader through Cavalcanti’s dense and lively writing.
Il fiorentino Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381-1451 ca.), membro di un ramo decaduto della famiglia, ebbe una vita segnata dal carcere per debiti. Il desiderio di giustizia e rivalsa informa i suoi scritti. La Nuova opera è un testo eterogeneo: punteggiato da novelle e aneddoti, fra cronaca storica e satira morale, narra e commenta gli eventi che coinvolsero Firenze negli anni 1440-1447. Memore di Dante, letto con profitto da Machiavelli, l’autore denuncia le cruente opposizioni tra fazioni e la degenerazione nei vizi della città, nonché la violenza e la tendenza alla tirannide dilaganti nella penisola, con punte polemiche verso Filippo Maria Visconti, Francesco Sforza, Cosimo de’ Medici. La nuova edizione critica e annotata guida i lettori attraverso la densa e vivace scrittura cavalcantiana.
Arianna Capirossi (2022). Giovanni Cavalcanti, Nuova opera. Edizione critica e annotata, a cura di Arianna Capirossi. Firenze : Firenze University Press [10.36253/978-88-5518-530-1].
Giovanni Cavalcanti, Nuova opera. Edizione critica e annotata, a cura di Arianna Capirossi
Arianna Capirossi
2022
Abstract
The Florentine Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381-c.1451), a member of a fallen branch of his family, had a life troubled by imprisonment for debt. Desire for justice and revenge informs his writings. Nuova opera is a heterogeneous text: punctuated by short stories and anecdotes, at the crossroads of historical chronicle and moral satire, it narrates and comments on the events that involved Florence in the years 1440-1447. Reminiscent of Dante and later profitably read by Machiavelli, the author denounces the bloody oppositions between factions and the degeneration into vice of his city, as well as the spreading of violence and tyranny throughout the Italian peninsula, in opposition to Filippo Maria Visconti, Francesco Sforza, Cosimo de’ Medici. This new critical and annotated edition guides the reader through Cavalcanti’s dense and lively writing.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.