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Pulci

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Pulci (Italian) [ˈpultʃi]
n
(Biographies / Pulci, Luigi (1432-1484) M, Italian, WRITING: poet) Luigi (ˈlwiːdʒi). 1432-84, Italian poet. His masterpiece is the comic epic poem Morgante (1483)


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Beginning with Antonia Tanini Pulci and the anonymous Santa Caterina di Colonia, Weaver moves from Quattrocento sacre rappresentazioni to the impact of humanism and the revival of classical comedy on the new genre of the "spiritual comedy" in the sixteenth century.
From the maidservant Licisca, rebuked by queen Elissa in the introduction, to Filomena's aristocratic Madonna Oretta (VI, 1) and Lauretta's Monna Nonna de' Pulci (VI, 3), female narrators use women's speech "to define what an honorable upper-class woman should be" (121).
destinated to the bury of the noble of Florence (Peruzzi, Bardi, Baroncelli, Pulci.
 
 
 
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