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
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