de arte venandi cum avibus of frederick ii
the main inhibiting factor on sicilian poetry political censorship imposed frederick: literary debate confined courtly love. in respect, poetry of north, though stuck langues d oïl, provided fresher blood satire. north fragmented communes or little city-states had relatively democratic self-government, , precisely why sirventese genre, , later, dante s divina commedia , sonnets popular: referred real people , feelings, though idealised beatrice. sirventese is, in effect, eminently political: refers real battles , attacks real military or political enemies, author being soldier or knight involved in strife, in guittone d arezzo s rotta di montaperti (defeat of montaperti), bloody battle manfred of sicily, frederick s son, defeated guelfs. dante himself commemorate event in commedia many years later, where, mindful of political strife had him exiled, attack many princes , popes, such boniface viii, 1 of biggest personal enemies.
frederick s censorship apparent structure of song: sicilians transformed tornada, strophe in troubadour poetry contains dedication famous person congedo, poet bids goodbye reader , asks song bear message lady. re-shaping of occitan model involved suppression of music. authors great readers , translators, apparently not play instrument, work intended reading, called logical unity, posing question, proposing, , finding solution in end.
that meant no interchangeable lines in troubadour poetry , fewer repetitions: french jongleur sang poems these necessary, sounded redundant sicilian authors. poetry music eye, not ear, , legacy apparent in dante , petrarch s lyrics. sonnet more exacting on point: separation between octave , sestet purely logical one, rimes drawing visual line between first , last part. however, fact italian poetry being made reading public may have facilitated circulation.
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