ISBN:
9788835124528
Language:
Italian
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (312 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Critica Letterararia e Linguistica
Keywords:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
;
Italien
;
Literatur
;
Petrarkismus
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Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374
Abstract:
The volume draws attention to some elements of ambiguity in the Italian Petrarchism of the 16th century, with insights also into the early 17th century. In particular, the book analyses: the debate on some contradictory or at least problematic aspects of Petrarch’s statements on love; the tension between literary artificiality and ostentation of sincerity in love letters; the ambiguity between sacred and profane in the encomiastic field, with special reference to the metaphor of the ‘temple’ in the so-called ‘temples of poems’. The path here proposed offers an idea of Petrarchism as a phenomenon less rigid and stereotyped than usually perceived. Its ambiguities or even contradictions can be subjects of debate, without necessarily taking the path of anti-petrarchism and parodic deformation
Note:
Italian
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