Born in 1432 to a once-noble Florentine family whose fortunes had vertiginously declined over the previous two centuries, Luigi Pulci was one of the most engaging and controversial authors in the Medici circle of intellectuals. He is considered one of the animators of the
brigata(or “band”) of poets who gravitated around young Lorenzo de’ Medici, the scion of Florence’s leading family, whose victory in a celebratory joust Pulci sang in a poem (
Giostra di Lorenzo de’ Medici, 1469). Pulci would eventually become something of an outcast, ever irreverent but also painfully marginalized in a cultural landscape that had significantly shifted since his early days as one of Lorenzo’s favorites. A pensive, or even melancholy, portrait of Luigi features in one of Filippino Lippi’s…
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Citation: Moudarres, Andrea. "Morgante". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41217, accessed 31 October 2024.]
