Antonio Pucci (poet)

Antonio Pucci (* around 1310 in Florence, † 1388 ) was a Florentine poet.

Antonio Pucci was bell-founder and taught himself further. He wrote his collection Libro di Varie storie ( " book by various tales " ) using a folk dialect to an audience of ordinary people. In his Centiloquio he worked ninety-one songs from Giovanni Villani's Cronica in terza rima. In Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio he praised, again in terza rima, the incomparable street life of the Florentine crowded marketplace. In his poems he could blame or praise women with the same strength, a popular trope of the Middle Ages. He wrote Cantari in eight-line punching, which were called ottava rima. They describe the themes of courtly romance in fast-paced presentation with an undercurrent of subversive popular skepticism, the newly undermined those conventions which included the stories full of clear contemporary color and pious feeling. Maybe he declaimed them in public places: La Reina d' Oriente, Gismirante, Apollonio di Tiro, Brito di Brettagna, Madonna Lionessa.