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- Title: Cino Da Pistoia and the Otherness of Exile (Critical Essay)
- Author : Annali d'Italianistica
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 228 KB
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In "Cino da Pistoia and the Otherness of Exile," Catherine Keen analyzes Cino's poetry, in which the poet portrays himself as a foreigner, or even as an infidel, who can scarcely be assimilated by the surrounding community, thereby "displaying an exilic obsession with distance and loss" that affects his lady as well. In so doing, Cino--Keen argues--deploys a form of "poetics of exclusion," which shows similarities with a Cavalcantian "exilic outlook" without ever embracing totally Cavalcanti's position. Keen's conclusion is remarkable for her insight into Cino's poetics: "Even though his psychological attachment to binary pairings means that he may have to represent his exilic transitions as an adoption of Otherness, he still prefers to exist as a nameable outsider than to probe the ambiguities of exile too far, and so risk Cavalcantian self-annihilation." "Banditus reputatur rebellis reipublicae" ("Whoever is banished is viewed as a rebel of the republic"), Cino da Pistoia pronounced in a Consilium on a point of statute law on banishment. (1) These are the words of Cino the jurist, speaking with a confident authority based on his expertise--both as practitioner and as scholar--in matters of Roman law and of Italian municipal statute. The statement offers a clear-cut, categorical definition of how banishment, the medieval Italian Comune's equivalent to Roman exile, transforms the subject into a public enemy. (2) The Consilium goes on to stress that responsibility for this change in status lies emphatically with the banished person: "factus est [...] diffidatus ut hostis." In speaking of exile in his professional capacity, Cino appears to be confident about categories and responsibilities. The citizen who becomes a banditus is classified as a rebel and enemy to the respublica, and rigorously excluded from the social and legal order of his society of origin: in the terms of contemporary critical theory, the exiled citizen becomes an "Other," a disempowered and marginalized outsider whom the dominant society ignores, abuses or rejects. (3)
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