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Glad to Go for a Feast

Name: Glad to Go for a Feast
Author: A. M. Cinquemani
ISBN: 9780820439747

by A. M. Cinquemani

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Glad To Go For a Feast focuses upon Milton's intellectual contacts in Florence during his sojourn from 1638 to 1639, especially those accademici surrounding the grammarian and Dantista Benedetto Buonmattei (1581-1648), including Carlo Roberto Dati (1619-1676) and Agostino Coltellini (1613-1693). Dr. A. M. Cinquemani provides a brief life of Buonmattei as priest, scholar, and accademico as well as a discussion of Della Lingua Toscana (1623-1643) as having perhaps shaped Milton's representation of prelapsarian language in Paradise Lost. The tendencies of contemporary Florentine criticism, as suggested by the work of Buonmattei, are considered with a view to understanding the particular version of Dante to which Milton was exposed. Large portions of Della Lingua Toscana and Buonmattei's commentaries on Dante, as well as Coltellini's "Tuscan Areopagitica," the Introduzione all' Anatomia (1651), are presented here for the first time in English.

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Explores the literary and linguistic influences that John Milton drew from his encounters with Florentine intellectuals in 1638-39. After a brief exploration of the life of Italian scholar Benedetto Buonmattei and Milton's sojourn in Florence, topics such as tracing the residue of Buonmattei's linguistic thought in Milton's Paradise Lost and discovering the particular version of Dante to which Milton was exposed are explored. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.