Abstrakt
Italian comic-realistic poetry, which flourished in the period from the 13th to the beginning of the 16th century in the territory of today's Tuscany, experienced its first era of great prosperity in the first half of the 14th century. It is a genre that stands in opposition to official, "higher" literature.
At a time when the poets of Stilnovism are chanting the divine beauty of their Lady, who, thanks to her "salute", moves them to higher realms (donna-angelo), comic poets talk about completely different topics - money, poverty, food, drinking, physical love. Poets such as Rustico Filippi, Cecco Angiolieri, Meo dei Tolomei or Pieraccio Tedaldi praide the values that can be expressed in the trinity of "dado, taverna e donna", which can be found in Italian literature both in Cecco Angiolieri in the 14th century and in other periods, for example at the end of the 15th century with Luigi Pulci.
Although these topics were viewed with contempt in the past and comic poetry was considered folk and unworthy of large audiences, modern times are returning the genre to its true place in the field of literature, and literary scholars are increasingly admitting that "higher" and "lower" topics are two sides of the same coin. Poets often talk about themselves - about their unhappy love, their poverty or other private matters and personal problems.
But is the information they give us in their poems really a reflection of private life? Isn't it more of a literary canon? Italian medieval comic poetry certainly represents the very plastic private life of a burgher of his time. However, he is more of a universal burgher and it is not a depiction of the poet's ego.
By examining the sources, it can be concluded that the poet does not speak directly about his own situation, needs or interests, but rather depicts in his work a stereotype, the experienced tradition of old topoi, which appears in poems in various forms over many centuries and migrates from one literary and historical stage to the second. Nevertheless, Italian comic-realistic poetry provides a colorful example of medieval life that is worth exploring.