The idea of beauty in Italian literature and language : "il buono amore è di bellezza disio" / edited by Claudio Di Felice, Harald Hendrix, and Philiep Bossier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Felice, Claudio, editor.

Hendrix, Harald, editor.

Bossier, Philiep, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Italian--Themes, motives.

Arts, Italian.

Aesthetics, Italian.

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian dialect of Sicilian.

Summary:

Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language. The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language assesses this long tradition in a series of essays covering a wide chronological and thematic range, while crossing from historical linguistics to literary and cultural studies. It offers elements for reflection on cross-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, and demonstrates the power of beauty as a fundamental category beyond aesthetics.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Figures

Introduction / Harald Hendrix , Claudio Di Felice and Philiep Bossier

Forms and Variations of Lemmata Indicating “Beauty” in Literary Italian and the Common Language / Rosario Coluccia

“Bellezze ed adornezze e piacimento”: The Concept of Beauty in the Sicilian School / Francesca De Blasi

Beauty as a Forma Mentis: Francis of Assisi / Brigitte Poitrenaud-Lamesi

From Earthly Venus to Heavenly Venus: On the Evolution of the Concept of Beauty in Girolamo Benivieni / Sergio Di Benedetto

The “True Form” of Beauty: Poetry and Portraits from Petrarch to the Sixteenth Century / Veronica Pesce

“Love is Naught But a Certain Desire to Enjoy Beauty”: Castiglione and Raffaello / Pasquale Sabbatino

The Principle of Beauty in the Literary Criticism of the Sixteenth Century / Antonio Sorella

Beauty at the Limit: The Baroque “Body”, with Reference to Adonis / Silvia Fabrizio-Costa

Words for Beauty: Giuseppe Parini between Ideal Cities and the Decadence of the World / Marcello Ciccuto

Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in Some Unpublished Poems by Giulio Bajamonti / Monica De Rosa

“The Profound Beauty is Greatness”: Itinerary in Giovanni Boine’s Aesthetics / Enrico Riccardo Orlando

The Origins of Beauty in Leopardi’s Zibaldone / Stefano Bragato

History of a Modest Beauty: Models of Woman’s Aesthetics from Fermo e Lucia to I promessi sposi / Gavino Piga

The “Second Beauty”: Ideas of Politeness and Beauty in Italian Books of Manners / Giovanna Alfonzetti

Fosca and Her Sisters: Origins and Hypostases of the “Medusean Beauty” in the Narrative of the Scapigliatura / Francesco Bonelli

Reconsidering Fin de Siècle Aestheticism: The Case of Gabriele D’Annunzio / Filippo Fonio

Paradise Saved and Lost of Fin de Siècle Aesthetics: Matelda and Mariana in the Works of Giovanni Pascoli / Francesca Irene Sensini

Eugenio Montale: For the “Incredible, Wonderful Face” of Clizia, between Photographs, Letters, the Palio and Other Verses / Epifanio Ajello

P.V. Tondelli and the Cannibals’ Generation in Search of the Lost Beauty / Agata Pryciak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-38895-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388956 DOI