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Frane Petrić’s Influence on Annibale Romei’s Understanding of Beauty and Love
Željka Metesi Deronjić
; Fakultet hrvatskih studija, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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With their works Frane Petrić (Francesco Patrizi da Cherso) and Annibale Romei contributed to the Late Renaissance trattatistica on beauty and love. Petrić (Cres, 1529 – Rome, 1597) outlined his views on beauty and love in two manuscripts: the dialogue Il Delfino, overo del bacio (before 1560, editio princeps in 1975) and an unfinished manuscript, L’amorosa filosofia (ca. 1577, editio princeps in 1963) composed of four dialogues. Petrić also wrote about these topics in a more concise form in his printed “Discorso” included in Le rime di Messer Luca Contile (1560), whose focus was not on love and beauty, but on the process of poetic creation. However, in the mentioned treatise Petrić comes forward with his main views on love and beauty.
Annibale Romei (Ferrara (?), between 1523 and 1530 – Ferrara, 1590), a noble man of Ferrara, published his Discorsi ... divisi in cinque giornate in 1585, and its extended version Discorsi ... divisi in sette giornate in 1586. This paper analyzes the first two treatises in Romeiʼs Discorsi: Della bellezza and Dell’amore humano. Frane Petrić, commended as an excellent connoisseur of issues regarding beauty and love, was invited in Romei’s Della bellezza to hold an introductory speech about beauty. In the second treatise on love, this honour was bestowed upon Battista Guirino, who in his speech draws directly upon Petrić’s teaching on beauty elaborated the day before.
Romei was familiar with Petrić’s writings on beauty and love. In his Della bellezza, Romei adopts Petrić’s views as presented in his Discorso on Luca Contile’s love sonnets. In Romei’s treatise Dell’amore humano, on the other hand, one may detect not only the influence of Petrić’s Discorso, but also significant similarities with Petrić’s views as outlined in both his Il Delfino overo del bacio and L’amorosa filosofia, some of which can also be found in Petrić’s early works from 1553. While Petrić’s impact on Romei’s first treatise is irrefutable, solid arguments in favour of indisputable influence of Petrić’s unpublished works on Romei’s treatise on love cannot be provided. However, the correlations in their views cannot be disputed. All the similarities highlighted here clearly confirm that Petrić and Romei deal with beauty and love within the Platonic and Neoplatonic tradition.
Despite the fact that the influence of Petrić’s views can be easily recognized in a number of Romei’s arguments, Romei confirms himself as an original thinker when he argues that physical beauty is a matter of subjective opinion. Romei’s original views also include his consideration of the relationship between beauty and ugliness, and, finally, his insistence on emphasizing the role of the intellect and free free will in the experience of love.
Ključne riječi
Frane Petrić / Francesco Patrizi da Cherso; Annibale Romei; beauty; love; kiss; self-love; Renaissance Platonism
Hrčak ID:
254876
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Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2020.
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