Le poète chassé de la ville (Plat. Rep. 398A) : un thème platonicien chez Pétrarque et Boccace
Abstract
The Platonic Legacy about Poetry is transmitted
to the Middle Ages by Boethius : at the beginning of
the Consolatio, Philosophy pushes away the poetic
Muses, too close to passions, according to Plato’s prescription
in Rep. 398 A : the poet « able to imitate every
aspect of life » is dangerous for the City and must be kept
out of the community. On the one hand Poetry is close to
the Revealed Truth ; on the other hand it is close to passions,
according to the « melancolic» pattern of Aristotle,
Probl. 10.1 : here’s the main Platonic challenge about Poetry
herited by the Middle Ages. Petrarch refuses the
« melancholic » model of solitude by emphasising the
Stoic-Christian solitude purified from the passions. On
the contrary, Boccace leads Poetry to meet again contingence.
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