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Il Fiore

FIORE, IL

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THE FIORE. - Allegorical-didactic poem of 232 sonnets in Italian vernacular, from the 14th century. It has been preserved only in codex H 438 of the Library of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.

The author of the F. says his name is Durante, which has led to the poem being attributed several times to Alighieri: the question is not at present entirely resolved in the negative, but it is certain that the F. cannot be separated from another poem, the Detto d'amore. Both are reworkings of the Roman de la Rose, with the aim more of depicting the gallant life of the time than of defining the theological and religious questions that played so large a part in the French poem. Both were edited by E. G. Parodi (Florence 1922). The Detto d'amore had been discovered by G. Morpurgo in a codex of the Laurenziana, no. 1234, published in the Propugnatore (I, f. 1, Bologna 1881, pp. 18-61).

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BIBL.: G. Mozzoni. Se posso il F. eture di Dante Alighieri, in Raccolto D'Aleone, Firenze 1901, pp. 657-62; E. Percopo, Il F. e di Rustico di Filippo F., in Rassegna critica della letteratura, II, 12 (1907), pp. 49-54; L. F. Benedetto, Il «Roman de la Rose» e la letteratura italiana, Halle 1910; M. Barbi, La curatura del F., in Studi danteschi, III, Firenze 1921, pp. 154-55; F. D'Ovidio, Se posso il F. eture di Dante Alighieri, in Nese studi danteschi, Napoli 1932, pp. 253-86; M. D. Ramacciotti, The syntax of il F. and of Dante's Inferno as evidence in the mention of the outership of il F., Washington 1936; G. Petronio, Introduzione al F., in Cultura acolatina, 8 (1948), pp. 47-61.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 1395–1396.

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Petrocchi, Giorgio. “Fiore, il.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1395–1396. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/fiore-il.

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Petrocchi, Giorgio. “Fiore, il.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1395–1396. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/fiore-il.

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@incollection{ec5_fiore_il,
  author    = {Petrocchi, Giorgio},
  title     = {Fiore, il},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1395--1396},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/fiore-il}
}

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