Celata verba

The classic culture is ever life during Middle Age we think that classical culture is dead and after during Renaissance all is born again, but is it true? No! Certainly, during Middle Age nothing was cured as classical culture, language is Latin, but also Greek, from Muslim Spanish, very good translators from ancient Greek had school of Greek very important; and classical myth that we find again among author and costume of Christian, liturgical costume that haven’t ready a definition and are confused between Christian and pagan and presence of gods on Medieval literature, like Dante’s Divina Commedia, when Dante says: “I saw Thymbraeus, Pallas saw, and Mars, Still clad in armour round about their father, Gaze at the scattered members of the giants…”, Pallas is a goodness as Mars, but pagan, therefore Dante had certainly known these goods and culture that had hold these presence; as Nicola Pisano(Fig.1) had known classical culture for his sculpture(Figg.1-2), and Petrarca, Italian poetry of 14^th century had wrote in Latin for his life, and had took from classical culture for every his books, Valerio Massimo for his De viris illustribus, Africa and other he red Tito Livio and he had loved every leaders of ancient, for Petrarca Christian culture is alone a marginal presence, but he is forward classical culture, as Giovanni Boccaccio who had took myth of war of Troy and he had written that Filostrato; therefore Middle Age known perfectly to distinguish between pagan and Christin faith, but Middle Age tolerated this cultural mixt because this isn’t dangerous, by now it was history, and the strong presence of classical culture was motive of pride not certainly for to worry, as Ristoro d’Arezzo, Italian artist, who compelled for scorn that he sees to fragment of ancient vases; therefore Middle Age had very respect for ancient culture, and used it for literature and poetry and other.

Alessandro Lusana           

 

 

 

 

Nicola Pisano

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