Ghibellinism


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Ghibellinism

the principles of the imperial and aristocratic party of medieval Italy, especially their support of the German emperors. Cf. Guelphism. — Ghibelline, n., adj.
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Thus, for example, glosses by Antonio da Tempo (Venice, 1477), Francesco Filelfo (Bologna, 1476), and Hieronimo Squarzafico (Venice, 1484) present Petrarch as a civic humanist and defender of Milanese Ghibellinism; Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo (Naples, 1533) recreates the poet as the epitome of Castiglionesque courtiership; Bernardino Daniello (Venice, 1541) stresses Petrarch's classical erudition in terms which will inform Du Bellay's project in La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse; and Reformation commentators such as Antonio Brucioli (Ferrara, 1548) and Lodovico Castelvetro (Basel, 1582) cast Petrarch as a proto-Protestant, a model particularly attractive to, and, as Kennedy shows, readily adopted by, the Sidneys in England.
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