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Antonio Pucci (c. 1310–1388) was a Florentine bellfounder, town crier, self-taught as a versifier, who wrote his collection, Libro di varie storie ("Book of Various Tales"), using a popular dialect for a popular audience. In his Centiloquio he set out in terzinas ninety-one cantos' worth of chronicle from Giovanni Villani's Cronaca. In Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio he praised, again in terzinas, the incomparable street life of Florence's crowded market piazza. In poems he could blame or praise women with equal force, a favorite medieval trope. He composed cantari in the eight-line stanzas called ottava rima, telling the subjects of courtly romance in a fast-paced narrative, with an undertone of subversive populist skepticism that undercut the very conventions that the stories embraced, full of vivid contemporary color and pious sentiment, and perhaps he declaimed them in the public squares: La Reina d'Oriente, Gismirante, Apollonio di Tiro, Brito di Brettagna, Madonna Lionessa.

Antonio Pucci
Born	1310 Republic of Florence, Italy
Died	1388 (aged 77–78) Republic of Florence, Italy
Occupation	Bellfounder, town crier and versifier
Language	Italian
Period	Italian Renaissance
Genre	Canto and literary trope
Subject	Tercet and terza rima
Notable work	Centiloquio

During the second half of the 14th century, Florence remained a centre of culture, but its literature developed a more popular character.[1] The best-known representative of this development was town crier Antonio Pucci, whose vast verse production includes poems on local Florentine lore as well as historical and legendary verse narratives.[1]

About 1373, New Chronicles from Giovanni Villani was versified and produced by fellow Florentine Antonio Pucci as a rhymed version in terza rima.[1][2] The poetic transcription was called Centiloquio.[3]

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External links

• Works by or about Antonio Pucci at Internet Archive
• Works by Antonio Pucci at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Brito di Brettagna e-text (in Italian)
• Madonna Lionessa e-text (in Italian)
• El Contasto de Glhuomini et Delle Donne From the Collections at the Library of Congress

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Antonio Pucci (c. 1309-1388[1]) est un sonneur de cloches, crieur public et poète florentin du XIVe siècle, surtout connu pour sa poésie lyrique en langue vernaculaire. Après les très célèbres Dante, Boccace et Pétrarque, Antonio Pucci est le poète florentin le plus important du XIVe siècle. Son catalogue est vaste et varié, décrivant événements historiques et quotidien florentin dans plusieurs styles poétiques. Son œuvre la plus importante demeure la mise en vers lyriques de la Nuova Cronica de Giovanni Villani, le Centiloquio. Pucci est également un innovateur en matière de style poétique, développant entre autres des déclinaisons du style du contrasto. Certaines de ses œuvres abordent des sujets très peu exploités durant le Moyen Âge, notamment la féminité dans Contrasto delle donne et l’homoérotisme dans le cantari della Reina d’Oriente.

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