Reading, Devotion and Religious Print in Early Cinquecento Naples: The Case of Francesco Sovaro’s Christiade.

This article analyses a little known Christian epic poem, the Christiade by Francesco Sovaro. Printed in Naples in 1539, the poem is a mosaic of passages from the Gospels offering a synoptic version of the life of Christ. I argue that the Christiade represents not only a literary work, but also a to...

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Publicado en:	Italian Studies Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 238 - 256
Autor principal:	Faini, Marco
Formato:	Poetry Review
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2017
Materias:	Christiade (Poem) Sovaro, Francesco Print culture Heresy History 16th century Italian poetry History of Naples, Italy, 1503-1734 Italian poetry Booksellers & bookselling Sixteenth century Poetry (Literary form) Literary criticism Christian poetry
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