“Io, Burnetto Latini”. Considerazioni su cultura e identità politica di Brunetto Latini e il Tesoretto.

Abstract

This article examines some of Brunetto Latini’s

works written in the French and Tuscan vernaculars, in

prose or poetry, with particular attention to the Tesoretto.

The analysis casts light on his articulated, flexible political

agenda, one in which popular culture and the aristocratic

element are in a dialogic relationship; and Brunetto’s

unique form of Guelphism further complicates and

enriches the republican dialectic of his thought.