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The disperata : from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France / by Gabriella Scarlatta.
Van Pelt Library PQ4128.D47 S33 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scarlatta, Gabriella, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Research in medieval and early modern culture
- Research In Medieval And Early Modern Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disperate, Italian--History and criticism.
- Disperate, Italian.
- Disperate, French--History and criticism.
- Disperate, French.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 307 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan University, [2017]
- Summary:
- This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.
- Contents:
- 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 døsespoir.
- Notes:
- "Medieval Institute Publications is a program of The Medieval Institute, College of Arts and Sciences"
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Scarlatta, Gabriella, 1964- author. Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France
- ISBN:
- 9781580442640
- 1580442641
- OCLC:
- 958355973
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