Literary
movement developed into XIII Century in Sicily, around the Federico II's
court and with his sons Manfredi and Enzo.
The
name "Scuola Siciliana" derived from a Dante's definition,
who wrote De vulgari eloquentia (I,XII, 2-4)
and called "Siciliana"
all the artistic production previous the Tuscany's one, and saying "
for the reason that many poets made solemn poetry......so much that everything
they produced between Italians, appeared before in the Court of many Reignants,
and for the fact that the Court was placed in Sicily, and everything artistic
that was produced before is was called Sicilian".
His
own main exponents were, near the sovereigns; the sons Manfredi and Enzo, Federico d'Antiochia, the leaders
Giacomo da Lentini, Pier delle
Vigne - Rinaldo d'Aquino - Giacomino Pugliese - Stefano Protonotaro -
Guido e Odo delle Colonne - Cielo d'Alcamo, with echoes in the Central part of
Italy (Folcacchiero Folcacchieri - Inghilfredi) and Northern Italy (Percivalle
Doria).
The
importance lies in the fact that for the first time ever there was a use
of a vernacular Italian language for literary pursue, this language was
the Sicilian "dialect", also if in a purged form from the main dialectical
aspects, and with the help of Latin and Provence contributions, testified
by some original fragments of king Enzo and Stefano Protonotaro, and in
part reconstituted by some works of Tuscans copiers that bring to Sicilian's
works some aspects of their own dialects and strongly mixing up with their
languages. |
