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Die Untersuchung behandelt einen bis heute vernachlässigten, zentralen Aspekt der Geschichte des imitatio-Begriffs. Es wird gezeigt, daß sich die renaissance-humanistische imitatio-Kategorie in Interdependenz mit dem Lebens- und Glaubensideal der imitatio Christi herausbildet. Dies erlaubt es, sowohl bisher unbeachtete Quellen und Etappen der imitatio-Geschichte erstmals zu würdigen als auch bereits vieluntersuchte neu zu betrachten. Untersucht werden vor allem Dantes "Commedia", Christine de Pizans "Chemin de long estude", Petrarcas "De vita solitaria", "De otio religioso" und "Familiares", die "dispute ciceroniane" des 15./16. Jahrhunderts und die Verwendung der imitatio-Begrifflichkeit in der Bildung des 12./13. Jahrhunderts.
This study examines a hitherto neglected but nonetheless cardinal aspect of the history of the concept of imitatio. It demonstrates that imitatio as a category highly operative in the Renaissance humanist tradition took shape in mutual interdependence with the religious ideal of imitatio Christi and its impact on contemporary life. This perspective brings with it an appreciation of sources and stages of the imitatio tradition not formerly perceived as such and also casts new light on those facets of its development that have long been in the forefront of scholarly interest. Discussion centres around Dante`s "Divina commedia", Christine de Pizan`s "Chemin de long estude", Petrarch`s "De vita solitaria", "De otio religioso" and "Familiares", the dispute ciceroniane of the 15th/16th century and the concept of imitatio underlying instruction in rhetoric and poetry in the 12th/13th century.