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''Verdi’s'' "Pater noster" libretto is not by Dante, whose "Pater noster" it in no way resembles. It is instead a revised and modernized version of an elaborated Paternoster by the mid- fourteenth-century Ferrarese poet Antonio Beccari. His works were largely unknown until their publication  
Antonio Beccari was a mid-fourteenth-century Ferrarese poet. His works were largely unknown until their publication in a systematic edition in 1967. In his review of that work, Antonio Vicari described Beccari and his poetry as follows:  
in a systematic edition in 1967. In his review of that work, Antonio Vicari described Beccari and his poetry as  
follows:  
   
   
Beccari emerges from virtual oblivion as the coryphaeus [leader] of the courtly poets of the Trecento, a  
:''"Beccari emerges from virtual oblivion as the coryphaeus [leader] of the courtly poets of the Trecento, a strange, restless but sympathetic personality. He was a wanderer, a gamester who led a Bohemian life and kept correspondence with many writers, including Boccaccio and Petrarch. . . . His poetry is a mixture of popular and learned elements, the latter borrowed especially from Dante and Petrarch, expressed in a language that is substantively literary Tuscan . . . . "''
strange, restless but sympathetic personality. He was a wanderer, a gamester who led a Bohemian life and  
kept correspondence with many writers, including Boccaccio and Petrarch. . . . His poetry is a mixture of  
popular and learned elements, the latter borrowed especially from Dante and Petrarch, expressed in a  
language that is substantively literary Tuscan . . . . ''


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==Works==
==Works==
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Beccari, Antonio, 1972. Le rime di maestro Antonio da Ferrara (Antonio Beccari). Edited by Laura Bellucci.  
==References==
Bologna: Riccardo Pàtron.  
*Beccari, Antonio, 1972. Le rime di maestro Antonio da Ferrara (Antonio Beccari). Edited by Laura Bellucci. Bologna: Riccardo Pàtron.
 


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 12:49, 4 June 2012

Life

Born: 1315

Died: c. 1373

Biography

Antonio Beccari was a mid-fourteenth-century Ferrarese poet. His works were largely unknown until their publication in a systematic edition in 1967. In his review of that work, Antonio Vicari described Beccari and his poetry as follows:

"Beccari emerges from virtual oblivion as the coryphaeus [leader] of the courtly poets of the Trecento, a strange, restless but sympathetic personality. He was a wanderer, a gamester who led a Bohemian life and kept correspondence with many writers, including Boccaccio and Petrarch. . . . His poetry is a mixture of popular and learned elements, the latter borrowed especially from Dante and Petrarch, expressed in a language that is substantively literary Tuscan . . . . "

View the Italian Wikipedia article on Antonio Beccari. (English translation by Google)

Works

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References

  • Beccari, Antonio, 1972. Le rime di maestro Antonio da Ferrara (Antonio Beccari). Edited by Laura Bellucci. Bologna: Riccardo Pàtron.

External links

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