Dear medieval-religionists,
although he's too modest to admit it himself, Mark Davie (a dear colleague from
Exeter) is a leading authority on Luigi Pulci, one of Renaissance Florence's
leading writers. (In fact, Mark's book on Pulci has just come out: *Half-serious
Rhymes. The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci.* [Publications of the Foundation for
Italian Studies, University College, Dublin.] Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1998.
199 pp. ISBN 0 7165 2601 8.) Mark has asked me in a private e-mail:
>A detail which I'm trying to follow up is the contemporary
>report (the source of which I still have to check out) that
>when Pulci died he was buried in unconsecrated ground. What
>would this signify - i.e. what were the grounds on which
>people were denied Christian burial in the 15th c? I wonder
>if the collective wisdom of the Medieval-Religion list
>could come up with anything?
Well, could it? I hope so!
Many thanks,
George
George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
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