«De scacherio»: percorsi allegorici nel Libellus de moribus hominum di Iacopo da Cessole
MURGIA, GIULIA
2013-01-01
Abstract
The Libellus de moribus hominum et de officiis nobilium super ludo scaccorum by Jacobus de Cessolis, written between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century, is a moral treatise that makes use of the game of chess to stage an allegorical depiction of medieval society. This paper aims to show the dialectic established between the explanation of the general allegory provided by the author and the accumulation of exempla, sententiae and anecdotes. The image of the chessboard influences the entire collection, determining Jacobus de Cessolis’s selection of “stories”, which were carefully chosen to highlight the centrality of the philosophy of education. This hypothesis will be investigated not only in the Latin original, but also in its Italian translations (from Tuscany and Veneto), and in particular, I will pay careful attention to the illustrative cycle of a manuscript of the Tuscan version of the Libellus, the ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Riccardiano 2513.File | Size | Format | |
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