The Epistle 26.01 of Francesco Filelfo. Classics as an instrument of contention
Abstract
The epistle object of study of this work represents the most wide letter of all latin epistolary of Filelfo –a well-known and ambiguous figure of the Italian Renaissance– who in an acute, sarcastic, and sometimes even violent way here inveighs against Lodrisio Crivelli using his own erudition as an instrument of contention. The dispute between the two intellectuals becomes a precious occasion to consider the key role which classicism played during the Renaissance and reflect on the processes of its assimilation not only in the narrow literary context, but also into the dynamics proper to the society
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