1st Edition

Albertino Mussato: The Making of a Poet Laureate A Political and Intellectual Portrait

By Aislinn McCabe Copyright 2022
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late medieval period to begin reviving classical Latin in his works. His classical style tragic drama Ecerinis , inspired by the writings of Seneca, paved the way for him to be crowned as the first poet laureate since antiquity.... Read more

Introduction

Escaping Dante’s Shadow

Chapter One: Mussato’s World

The Classical Revival in Late Medieval Padua

Chapter Two: Mussato the Poet

Philosophy and Politics in the Early Writings

Chapter Three: Mussato the Historian

Imperial History at the Court of Emperor Henry VII

Chapter Four: Mussato the Statesman

Self-Promotion in Political Turmoil

Chapter Five: Mussato the Dramatist

The Making of Padua’s New Antichrist

Biography

Aislinn McCabe completed her doctoral studies in the Department of History and Centre for Neo-Latin Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her work has been presented at several conferences including the Social History Society Annual Conference (Lincoln, 2019), the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (Regina, 2018), and the Annual Neo-Latin Symposium (Cork, 2017). Aislinn was the recipient of the Irish Research Council's "Government of Ireland Fellowship" in 2015.