Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
FERRARA, ANTONIO da. - Poet, born in Ferrara in 1315, died there between 1371 and 1374. He is also known as A. Beccari or Del Beccaio. Little is
FERRARI, ANDREA CARLO - PORTRAIT.
His activity in Bologna, Forlì, Padua, Milan, at the courts of the Pepoli, Ordelaffi, Carraresi, and Visconti is reflected in his Canzoniere (which lacks a critical edition), where political themes of Ghibelline character alternate with love motifs. His poetry oscillates between the learned and the popular currents without achieving stylistic unity. Evidence of an attempted religious reformation is found in the seven chapters to the Virgin, composed between 1340 and 1357.
BIBL.:Saggio di rime ined. di m. A. d. F., edited by A. Bottoni, Ferrara 1878; E. Levi, A. e Nicolò da F. poeti e uomini di corte del Trecento, ibid. 1909; N. Sapegno, Il Trecento, Milan 1938, pp. 454-61. Enzo Navarra
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“FERRARA, ANTONIO DA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 717. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/ferrara-antonio-da.
