Medieval Theories of Imitation and Mimesis Quiz
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What did Cicero contrast imitation with in the middle ages?

  • Truth (correct)
  • Perception
  • Reality
  • Ideas
  • Who among the radical thinkers believed that it would be advisable to leave room for imitation?

  • Cicero
  • John of Salisbury
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Tertullian (correct)
  • When did the concept and theory of imitation enter Renaissance poetics?

  • End of the fifteenth century
  • Middle of the seventeenth century
  • Middle of the sixteenth century (correct)
  • Beginning of the fourteenth century
  • Who repeated the classical definition 'art imitates nature' without any reservations in the middle Ages?

    <p>Thomas Aquinas</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who explained in an Aristotelian way that imitation is one of the four causes of poetry?

    <p>F. Sassetti</p> Signup and view all the answers

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