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9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)

Carrai, Stefano. "9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)". Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 165-178. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226437439-014

Carrai, S. (2009). 9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen). In V. Kirkham & A. Maggi (Ed.), Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (pp. 165-178). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226437439-014

Carrai, S. 2009. 9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen). In: Kirkham, V. and Maggi, A. ed. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 165-178. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226437439-014

Carrai, Stefano. "9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)" In Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, 165-178. Chicago: University of Chicago Pr

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The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum Carmen)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE O F T H E S E L F • (Buccolicum carmen) David Lummus T he Buccolicum carmen, the single major poetic work in Latin by Boccaccio, is arguably also the most ambitious poetic work in his corpus.1 Boccaccio himself seems to claim as much in the Genealogia deorum gentilium when he defends the opinion that poets often hide meanings beneath the veil of stories, citing himself along with Virgil, Dante, and Petrarch.2 Petrarch’s pastoral poem, he tells us, gives readers more than enough evidence in its gravitas and exquisite elegance to deduce that the fantastical names of the characters have allegorical meanings in consonance with the moral philosophy of his De vita solitaria and other writings. With typical understatement, Boccaccio mentions that he could also offer as evidence of a philosophical poetry his own Buccolicum carmen, but that he is not yet important enough to be considered among such a distinguished crowd; besides, it is proper to leave the commentary on one’s own works to others.

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Bucolicum carmen

Bucolicum carmen is an organic collection of twelve eclogues, composed by Petrarch from c. 1346–7 and published in 1357.^[1] The last (Aggelos) contains the dedication of the sylloge to Donato Albanzani.

Overview

The dark allegories suggested by the verses are in part explained in the letter that Boccaccio sent Martino da Signa (Ep. XXIII), which some manuscripts give in front of the collection of poems, by way of introduction. In this document, after having briefly gone into the history of the genre and having indicated its main exponents to be Theocritus, Virgil and Petrarch, Boccaccio undertakes an exercise in self-exegesis, in the best of Dantean tradition. Dante is the most evident model for the Buccolicum carmen, even though Boccaccio strategically excludes him from the list of poetic antecedents recalled in Epistola XXIII. Dante's influence can be seen in the themes and means used in the correspondence between Alighieri and Giovanni del Virgilio, the famous exchange of eclogues that Boccaccio personally copied and that is among