Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
- Author: Wilson, Blake
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Contents
- Introduction
- Part I . The Civic Tradition: The Art of the Canterino:
- 1. Early history: Ioculatores and Giullari
- 2. The Trecento Canterino
- Excersus 1: Piazza San Martino: performance, urban space, and audience
- 3. The Canterino in the fifteenth century
- Part II . The Humanist Tradition: Cantare ad Lyram:
- 4. Florence: from Canterino to Cantare ad Lyram
- Excursus 2: Filippino Lippi's portrait of a Canterino
- 5. Cantare ad Lyram and humanist education
- 6. Cantare ad Lyram in the courts
- 7. Rome: Cantare ad Lyrum at the summit
- Epilogue: the sixteenth century.