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The article considers the comparison of poetry and history in the Italian treatises of the 16th century which goes back to the Aristotle’s Poetics. It reveals the grounds for their comparison – the place of history and poetry among other disciplines, the importance of the categories of narration and imitation, the natural and artificial order of presentation. The attention is focused on the relationship of poetry and history to truth according to the authors of that period, and on the interpretations of Aristotle’s famous statement that poetry is more philosophical and serious than history (1451b5–7).
poetry; history; truth; universal; Aristotle's Poetics; the literary theory of Italian Renaissance
Download textFor citing: Lozinskaya E.V. (2021). Art and truth: poetry and history in Italian renaissance treatises. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(47): Literature and history – fact and fiction, pp. 83-100. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2021.03.05