A “cavalier pensoso” between Machiavelli and Petrarch
Whereas much of Machiavellian lyric opus reveals a character of “anti-Petrarchism,” the relationship between Machiavelli and Petrarch’s civil poetry is more complex and intricate. It is not by chance that Machiavelli selected Petrarch’s verses to close .
Carlo Varotti
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«Viva il vino ch'è sincero» : hedonisme i fisicitat en la traducció de llibrets d'òpera italians [PDF]
En els traductors de llibrets d'òpera italians es percep una forta influència d'instàncies romàntiques i postromàntiques en detriment de les peculiaritats de la tradició d'arrel stilnovista-petrarquista.
Edo, Miquel
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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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Remodelando propriedade inglesa como paraíso feminino: Aemilia Lanyer e o country-house poem “The Description of Cookham” (1610) [PDF]
This article proposes to investigate an elegiac poem, “The Description of Cookham”, which Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) wrote and published in 1610-11 at the request of her patron Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland – the first estate poem in English ...
Guimarães, Paula Alexandra
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A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon's oratorical debut at Wittenberg University
Abstract The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform.
Isabella Walser‐Bürgler
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The theme of the dream of the beloved, object of special interest by the Spanish studies (Palley 1983; Maurier 1990, Alatorre 2003), links Iberian poets of the Siglo de Oro to Italian Petrarchist poetry, often through direct textual subsidiaries, both at
Cristina Acucella
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Petrarquismo en octosílabos: del Cancionero de Urrea al de Pedro de Rojas. [PDF]
This article deals with Italian influence over Spanish octosyllables. It brings into focus three kinds of images: those related to mythology, to descriptio puellae and to witty Petrarchism.
Alonso, Álvaro
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Los sonetos y canciones del poeta Francisco Petrarcha de Enrique Garcés. Notas sobre el Canzoniere de Francesco Petrarca en la América del siglo XVI [PDF]
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVI se realizaron tres traducciones al castellano del Canzoniere de Francesco Petrarca; la única completa es la que publicó en 1591 con el título Los sonetos y canciones del poeta Francisco Petrarcha que traduzia Henrique ...
Bertomeu Masiá, María José
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Languages, Latin, and the Jacobean Secretariat: William Fowler's Letters in Florence and Venice
Abstract This article presents several letters by Queen Anna of Denmark that are currently preserved in the State Archives of Florence and Venice, and that were written by her foreign secretary, Master William Fowler (Edinburgh 1560–London 1612). Fowler is a well‐known presence in Scottish literary history, as a member of James' VI so‐called ‘Castalian
Allison L. Steenson
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L’Éloge de la laideur dans la littérature antipétrarquiste
On the basis of the analysis of an academic discourse from the philosopher Antonio Rocco in paradoxical praise of ugliness (1630), we distinguish several ways of dealing with ugliness within the Italian literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
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