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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Petrarch"”.
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Petrarch's Africa I-IV : a translation and commentary.
… scholars have neglected Francesco Petrarch's self-proclaimed masterwork, the Africa. Focusing on Petrarch's vernacular poetry and to a lesser extent his Latin prose, scholars overlook his Latin verse. Of Petrarch's major works, the Africa has received the least scholarly attention, …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… draw from large collection of madrigals on Petrarch sonnets. The analytical methodology is built on the premise that Cinquecento encounters with poetry can be described as embodied reading, and that the highlighting of these linguistic features in music was a product of such reading.</p> …
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… thesis examines the role of animal imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta' (Rvf) as a means of elucidating his poetics in conversation with his predecessors. To achieve this aim, the present study compares and contrasts Petrarch’s poetry with that of the poets quoted in Rvf 70, namely …
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"A comparative analysis of 18 settings of Petrarch's ""Tutto'l dipiango; e poi la notte, quando"""
… eighteen different musical settings of the Petrarch sonnet ""Tutto'l di piango; e poi la notte, quando."" These settings include two unattributed recitation formulas from the Rocco Rodio Anthology and the Bottegari Lutebook, thirteen polyphonic settings by two anonymous composers, Girolamo …
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The Spiritual Madrigals of Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
… study; texts and translations of all except the Petrarch texts; and texts of Marian litanies and Latin hymns that enhance our understanding of the imagery in the spiritual madrigals.
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Il commento di Benvenuto da Imola a Valerio Massimo. Edizione critica dell’Expositio
… between Benvenuto, on the one hand, and Petrarch and Boccaccio, on the other, in light of quotations and mentions of the two Corone made in the commentary on Valerius Maximus, which are more often implicit than explicit. Finally, we note the complete absence of quotations from Dante and …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… Marlowe and John Donne. Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is evident in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love traditions are based outside of marriage, I will discuss …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Petrarch, Salutati, and Bruni, clearly demonstrates that Caesar was consistently portrayed as the first emperor and used to represent the Roman Empire. As the first emperor, representations of Caesar figured significantly in debates about the power …
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A theory and praxis of a city poetic: Jakobson, poetic function and city space: women, deixis and the narrator: a city poem: 'Shades of light: a triumph of city'
… A Triumph of City. This poem is based on the Petrarchan sequence of Triumphs and interprets the woman poet, and poetry, within a city environment. It is a full length practical exploration of how the theory of a city poetic can be expressed in practice. The Commentary which accompanies the …
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The English sonnet from Wyatt to Milton
… the sonnet, -- translated from the Italian of Petrarch by Sir Thomas Wyatt, purified by the Earl of Surrey, exalted and made popular by Sidney, experimented with and sometimes tortured by more than a dozen of his contemporaries and followers, and filled with a greater power than it had ever yet …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… and Italian, and her translations of Francesco Petrarch, Antonio Allamanni, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and others are examined alongside a sonnet-cycle inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel <em>The Sorrows of Young Werther</em>. Finally, the edition features an appendix comprised of …
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The Italianate Wordsworth
… University. Wordsworth translated works by Petrarch, the paradigmatic Italian sonneteer, in 1789-90; by Ludovico Ariosto, the master of epic romance, between 1789 and 1795, in 1802, and in 1815; by Pietro Metastasio, author of popular songs and melodramas, in 1802-1803; by Michelangelo …
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MATERIALI E METODI PER UNA IPERCONCORDANZA DELLA POESIA ITALIANA
Il progetto sviluppato da Pietro Sichera durante i tre anni del corso di Dottorato ha avuto come obiettivo lo studio preparatorio per la costituzione di una iperconcordanza che riunisse e catalogasse tutte i lavori di lemmatizzazione sulla poesia italiana da Petrarca al '900 realizzati a partire …
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Cupid's Victimization of the Renaissance Male
<p>Following the path of the use of the Petrarchan sonnet in Renaissance England, this article explores why this specific form was so prevalent from the court of Henry VIII to that of his daughter, Elizabeth I. The article pays specific attention to the works of Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, …
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Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante
… Ovidian character--a gender switch that later Petrarch will adopt. Both poets also go beyond comparing their world with that of the "Metamorphoses" (what all the vernacular poets discussed in Chapter 2 did), but truly integrate Ovidian material into their poetry, blending Ovid's world into …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in the culture of Elizabethan England in the …
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
… and Juan de Jáuregui (1583-1641), I argue that Petrarchism, the period’s dominant poetic framework, became a cultural meta-discourse of memory in Spain. It allowed poets to absorb non-literary discourses (such as philosophy, medicine, law, theology, and politics) to stage memory in action, while …