The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France
By (author) Gabriella Scarlatta
Hardback (Published)
(August 2017)
ISBN: 9781580442640
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $19.95
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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
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