Considered the masterpiece of Cecco d’Ascoli, "L'Acerba" is a poem in sixth rhyme, left unfinished at the beginning of the fifth canto after Cecco was condemned to the stake "for errors against the faith". It brings together astronomical, astrological, alchemical and naturalistic data, mostly of Arab origin, which Cecco contrasts with the "false" science of Dante's Commedia and above all with the totalizing need of Thomistic derivation, which that work animates and pervades. - [Publisher]

Language: Italian

ISBN: 978-88-7799-383-0