Scarlatta The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-58044-265-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Rich with morose invectives, the Italian lyric genre of the disperata builds toward a crescendo of despair, with the speakers damning and condemning their beloved, their enemy, their destiny, Fortune, Love, and often themselves. Although Petrarch and Petrarchism have been amply analyzed as fertile sources for late Renaissance poets in France, the influence of the Italian disperata in this context has yet to receive proper scholarly attention. This study explores how the language and themes of the disperata - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets from its beginning in the Northernand Southern Italian courts, to France, at the court of the late Valois, where the disperata found great success as a prolific source of imitation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scarlatta, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Gabriella Scarlatta is Professor of French and Italian, Director of French Studies, and Associate Dean at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.