The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

By (author) Gabriella Scarlatta

Book cover: The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

Hardback (Published)

(August 2017)

ISBN: 9781580442640

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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(August 2017)

ISBN: 9781580442657

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~ENG~This study explores how Italian and French poets adopted the disperata genre to establish a tradition that both merges with and subverts Petrarchism.


This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre – including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations – are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

Introduction The Italian Disperata: Origins and Definitions The Female-Voiced Disperata The Disperata in the Quattrocento The Disperata in the Cinquecento The Disperata in France Disperata and Desespoir Conclusion, Introduction
The Italian Disperata: Origins and Definitions

The Female-Voiced Disperata

The Disperata in the Quattrocento

The Disperata in the Cinquecento

The Disperata in France

Disperata
 and Désespoir

Conclusion

Dr. Gabriella Scarlatta is Associate Professor of French and Italian, Director of French Studies, and Associate Dean at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

  • By (author) Gabriella Scarlatta