Antonio Beccari
Life
Born: 1315
Died: c. 1373
Biography
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 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 . . . .
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Works
Settings of text by Antonio Beccari
Beccari, Antonio, 1972. Le rime di maestro Antonio da Ferrara (Antonio Beccari). Edited by Laura Bellucci. Bologna: Riccardo Pàtron.
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