Rustico Filippi, The Art of Insult

Fabian Alfie

Rustico Filippi, The Art of Insult

Translated by Fabian Alfie

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Rustico Filippi (1230-99), Italian poet

New Translations 5

Modern Humanities Research Association

18 November 2014 • 200pp

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MedievalItalianTranslationPoetry

Rustico Filippi (ca. 1230 – ca. 1299) was probably the first Italian poet to explore the poetics of insult. During the Middle Ages, literature was categorized as a subset of ethics; through the descriptions of characters, all literature consisted of the praise of the worthy, or of the blame of the reprehensible. Literature enforced traditional morality by inspiring admiration or condemnation in its readers.

By writing a series of insulting caricatures, Filippi developed the poetry of blame in medieval Italy. His sonnets put the unseemly characteristics and actions of fellow Florentines on display for public ridicule. He derides men for their cowardice, women for their illicit sexuality, and members of both sexes for their filthiness and vice. Filippi inspired numerous imitators, and initiated a centuries-long tradition of insulting verse. One of the people indebted to Rustico was Dante Alighieri, whose negative portraits in Inferno have roots in Filippi’s derisive sonnets.

Fabian Alfie is a Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.

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i-iv	Front Matter Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.1	Cite
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v-v	Table of Contents Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.2	Cite
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vi-vi	Acknowledgements Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.3	Cite
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1-10	Introduction Rustico Filippi Nicknamed ‘Il Barbuto’ (c. 1230–1240/c. 1295–1299) Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.4	Cite
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11-17	Bibliography Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.5	Cite
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18-138	Rustico Filippi Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.6	Cite
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139-156	IACOPO DA LÈONA Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.7	Cite
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157-164	MINO DA COLLE Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.8	Cite
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165-174	Niccola Muscia of Siena Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.9	Cite
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175-178	Iacomo De’ Tolomei, Nicknamed ‘Il Graffione’ (‘the Lacerator’) Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.10	Cite
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179-192	Dante’s Tenzone With Forese Donati Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.11	Cite
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193-194	Back Matter Fabian Alfie doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0prm.12	Cite
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Alfie, Fabian (trans.), Rustico Filippi, The Art of Insult, New Translations, 5 (MHRA, 2014)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Rustico Filippi, The Art of Insult, trans. by Fabian Alfie, New Translations, 5 (MHRA, 2014), p. 21.

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