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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PDF (Published)

(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

  • By (author) Gabriella Scarlatta