Cartography and Epic in Florentine Humanism and Andrea da Berberino’s Ugone d’Alvernia
Stephen P. McCormick
This essay investigates the use of cartographic metaphor in Andrea da Barberino’s early modern Italian prose epic Ugone d’Alvernia. By tapping an impressive range works on natural history, bestiary tradition, and imagery, Barberino reworks updates his Franco-Italian source material, Huon d’Auvergne, to create text that appeals Florentine merchant audience. first explores geographic thought fifteenth-century Florence then attempts understand how Andrea’s work resonates conflicts with contemporary thinking humanism. Finally, this analysis deploys metaphoric language medieval mapping traditions serve as a subtext hell journey undertaken by Ugone, count Auvergne, epic’s protagonist.
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