Le maccheronee by Teofilo Folengo
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"Le maccheronee" by Teofilo Folengo is a macaronic Latin poem written in the sixteenth century. This audacious work parodies traditional chivalric epics by overturning heroic and courtly values through paradoxical, surreal events. The protagonist Baldo, a peasant hero rather than a nobleman, embarks on wild adventures with his rough companions—battling tyrants, escaping prison, confronting pirates, slaying witch queens, and descending into Hell itself. Written in deliberately grotesque Latin mixed with dialect and
vulgar elements, the poem celebrates peasant life in a world dominated by hunger, violence, and chaos. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Folengo, Teofilo, 1496-1544 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Luzio, Alessandro, 1857-1946 |
| Title |
Le maccheronee Zanitonella - Baldus - Moscheide - Epigrammata |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldus_(poema) |
| Credits | Produced by Carlo Traverso, Claudio Paganelli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Images generously made available by Editore Laterza and the Biblioteca Italiana at www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/ScrittoriItalia) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 44.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Macaronic poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 33982 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-33982-5 |
| Release Date | Sep 22, 2010 |
| Last Update | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 445 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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