Abstract
Abstract‘Stanze per la Giostra’ is familiar as the title conventionally given to Poliziano's poem, which apparently promises to commemorate Giuliano de' Medici's victory in a tournament held in Florence in January 1475. While doubts have been expressed about both the title and Poliziano's intentions, the last stanza of the poem leaves its hero on the brink of some great achievement in the name of ‘Amor, Minerva e Gloria’. If that achievement was indeed to have been in the joust, nothing in the text suggests that Poliziano would have described the event in any but the most elevated and unspecific way; it is not the kind of poem in which one would expect to find anything like a realistic account of what took place. The poem as it stands is in any case sui generis, having nothing in common with the few undistinguished precedents which existed for commemorative, topical verse in the vernacular. Indeed, the lack of a suitable vernacular genre must have been one reason for the adoption, by some poets in the Med...
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