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encomiastic
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While this perhaps implies a false dichotomy, one value of this volume is certainly the breadth of roles and relationships in which it displays Battiferra: as academician of the Intronati of Siena, as religious patron of the Florentine Jesuits, as courtly encomiast of the Medici, as imitator of Della Casa, Colonna, and Bernardo Cappello, and as poetic correspondent of Varchi, Caro, and Gabriele Fiamma.
” This is the sort of information most people would cringe to have made public about themselves, especially since such a compendium will presumably include a heartfelt tribute from Henry Kissinger, the Morey Amsterdam of personal video encomiasts.
But if these hymns free the speaker to cry "Amen" in solidarity with other encomiasts, they also cast him in a satiric light, as the only "unlettered" clerk among a host of golden pens.
 
 
 
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