Pucci, Antonio

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Canadian industrialization versus the Italian contadini in a decade of brutality, 1902-1912
essay 1981

Summary: Antonio Pucci was a Florentine bellfounder, town crier, self-taught as a versifier, who wrote his collection, Libro di varie storie, using a popular dialect for a popular audience. In his Centiloquio he set out in terzinas ninety-one cantos' worth of chronicle from Giovanni Villani's Cronaca. In Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio he praised, again in terzinas, the incomparable street life of Florence's crowded market piazza. In poems he could blame or praise women with equal force, a favorite medieval trope. He composed cantari in the eight-line stanzas called ottava rima, telling the subjects of courtly romance in a fast-paced narrative, with an undertone of subversive populist skepticism that undercut the very conventions that the stories embraced, full of vivid contemporary color and pious sentiment, and perhaps he declaimed them in the public squares: La Reina d'Oriente, Gismirante, Apollonio di Tiro, Brito di Brettagna, Madonna Lionessa. Wikipedia
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [5]
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5]
Born: 1309 [2]; 1310 [5]
Birth Place: Florence [5]
Died: 1388 [2]; 1388-10-13 [5]
Death Place: Florence [5]
Country: Italy [2]
Language: Italian [3]
Occupation: poet [5]
Profession: Glockengießer [2]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. Wikidata

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