The "disperata": from medieval Italy to Renaissance France

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

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Main Author: Scarlatta, Gabriella 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kalamazoo Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University [2017]
Series:Research in medieval and early modern culture
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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
Physical Description:xxviii, 307 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781580442640

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