Publisher's Synopsis
In the Cantici di Fidenzio, the unhappy Fidenzio sings about his failed love for a student. As befits him as a Renaissance Latin teacher, he uses the ancient and contemporary literary models from Virgil to Petrarch to Berni to give his work the proper auctoritas. The language he uses (a morpho-syntactic mixture of Latin and Italian), Fidenzio's inadequate expectations and the associated implications can no longer be easily understood from today's perspective: if the work was a highly entertaining read for contemporaries, it is today Readers rely on a few explanations in order to open up the mundus significans of the Renaissance. For the first time, the study, written in Italian, is working out results that make the overall work tangible.
