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girlboccaccio · 2 years ago

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I’m reading again Ernst Kantorowicz biography about Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen and I happened in one of my favourite parts, the one dedicated of course to Pier delle Vigne.

This is so huge (to me) because the author here is describing Frederick and Pier basically as the “You Don`t Know Him Like I Do 😤 “ trope to each other.

(But also: the image of a ruler and of his closest collaborator that works so good together that their plural ideas became easily one, that after eight centuries the outcomes of their partnership is still considered indivisible, you can’t understand when one finish and the other one starts etc etc).

#pier delle vigne #emperor frederick ii #Frederick II Hohenstaufen #pier della vigna #Ernst Kantorowicz #King Manfred’s letters in della Vigna’s style disclose a painful discrepancy #girl?#ah yes sometimes is forgotten but after his death Pier delle Vigne was still considered a traitor BUT his style and works #were transmitted by his pupils and students - many of them remembered him fondly like Nicola da Rocca which after the fall of the Hohenstauf #dinasty saved the papers of his old master and that's to him that we have a lot of Pier de #delle Vigne surviving work #italian history #sicilian history #medieval history #13th century #federiciana

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