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Comic, the Renaissance Idea of

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During the Renaissance, the comedian was a means of understanding the world, a structural element in the expressive quest to describe and expose reality. Thus he took on precise literary traits – playful, farcical, bound to the sphere of the body – as well as profound theoretical connotations, as reflected in the poetry, theater, treatises, and novelistic genre of the time.

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    Laura Carotti

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Carotti, L. (2020). Comic, the Renaissance Idea of. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1114-1

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