Chapter A proposito dell’autore del Choždenie na Florentijskij sobor
Abstract
The anonymous Choždenie na Florentijskij sobor is one of four works written by Russian envoys to the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), an event that sealed the union of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. This article addresses the problem of that unknown author’s social status, an issue of controversy in the several studies devoted to this text beginning in the 19th century. Our linguistic and stylistic analysis examines the author in terms of his cultural literacy and explores how his conception of literary standards was shaped by specific experiences of reading and writing.
Keywords
Old Russian literature; travel writing; Council of Ferrara-Florence; Choždenie na Florentijskij soborDOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-910-2.10ISBN
9788864539102, 9788864539102Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2019Series
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 43Classification
Sociology