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Teofilo Folengo

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Folengo, Teofilo 

(pen name, Merlin Cocai). Born Nov. 8, 1496, in Mantua; died Dec. 9, 1544, in Santa Croce di Campese. Italian writer.

Folengo’s main work, the narrative poem Baldus (first version, 1517), written in macaronic Latin, satirized feudal chivalry, the church, monasticism, and other medieval institutions. The poem reflects the viewpoint of the peasantry and consequently expresses a profoundly popular spirit. In Folengo’s works, macaronic Latin lost its purely parodic character and became an individualized type of poetic language. Baldus was an influence on Rabelais.

WORKS

Opere italiane, vols 1–3. Edited by U. Renda. Bari, 1911–14.

REFERENCES

Gaspari, A. Istoriia ital’ians koi literatury, vol. 2. Moscow, 1897.
De Sanctis, F. Istoriia ital’ians koi literatury, vol. 2. Moscow, 1964.
Croce, B. Poeti e scrittori del pieno e del tardo Rinascimento, vol. 1. Bari, 1958.
Goffis, C. F. “Bibliografia regionata del Folengo.” Revista di sintesi letteraria, 1934, vol. 1.
Ramat, R. Saggi sul Rinascimento. Florence [1969].
Messedaglia, L. Vita e costume della rinascenza in Merlin Cocai, vols. 1–2. Padua, 1973.

R. I. KHLODOVSKII



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THE BALDUS OF TEOFILO FOLENGO While neither the De asse or the Letters of Obscure Men makes easy reading, even for competent Latinists (the first because its language is so sophisticated and the second because it is so colloquial), both can be read and understood by Renaissance specialists in literature and history.
Nuovo e originale il contributo di Massimo Scalabrini, che porta il discorso sul piano ironico della retorica maccaronica nel Baldus di Teofilo Folengo, ma facendo notare quanto profondamente teologico e paradossalmente spirituale possa essere il poema folenghiano: "E il mondo salvato dall'incarnazione e dalla resurrezione .
 
 
 
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