Italian statesman, writer and historian (1261-1329)
Albertino Mussato (1261–1329) was a statesman, poet, historian[1] and playwright from Padua. He is credited with providing an impetus to the revival of literary Latin, and is characterized as an early humanist.[2] He was influenced by his teacher, the Paduan poet and proto-humanist Lovato Lovati.[3] Mussato influenced many humanists such as Petrarch.
A native of Padua and a member of its council, Mussato acted as an ambassador between Padua and Emperor Henry VII.[4] He is a member of a group of Latin Paduan poets called the cenacolo padovano.[5] Mussato is renowned for his Latin play Ecerinis,[6] which was based on the tyrannical career of Ezzelino III da Romano. It was the first secular tragedy written since Roman times. Thus, it is considered to be the first Italian tragedy identifiable as a Renaissance work.[7][1]Ecerinis is not only significant for its historical information, but is modeled after the Senecan tragedy and is an indication of the early revival of classical works and their form – a characteristic of the humanist movement.
Mussato received the poet laureate honour as a result of the literary and political qualities of his play. He was one of the first to receive this designation after the classical age.[8] Mussato's other works are a corpus of letters, poetry, and historical works, including a chronicle of Henry VII's actions in Italy. In addition to his prolific writings, he was also a champion of poetry which he defended in a 1317 polemical exchange of letters with a Dominican friar, Giovannino of Mantua.[9]
^ abGrund (2011), p. xx
^Witt (2000), p. 123
^Grund (2011), p. 117
^"Albertino Mussato" Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 1 March 2015.
^Schildgen (2009)
^Also rendered Eccerinus or Eccerinis
^Neoclassic Critics Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
^Concetta Carestia Greenfield, Humanist and Scholastic Poetics, 1250–1500. (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1981), 79.
^Patricia Zupan, "Dante's Ulysses: Toward Recovering A Primordial Language" Archived 2010-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
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