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Full-Text Articles in Italian Literature
Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach, Gwenyth E. Hood
Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach, Gwenyth E. Hood
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
An artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, investing considerable energy in establishing and alluding to its dates (starting Good Friday, 1300). Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche.
La Compiuta Donzella Of Florence (Ca. 1260): The Complete Poetry, Fabian Alfie
La Compiuta Donzella Of Florence (Ca. 1260): The Complete Poetry, Fabian Alfie
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Translation into English of extant poems of the thirteenth-century Italian poet La Compiuta Donzella of Florence with poems addressed to her by Mastro Torrigiano and a letter to her from Guittone d'Arezzo.
The Disperata, From Medieval Italy To Renaissance France, Gabriella Scarlatta
The Disperata, From Medieval Italy To Renaissance France, Gabriella Scarlatta
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 …
Brunetto Latini, "La Rettorica", Stefani D'Agata D'Ottavi
Brunetto Latini, "La Rettorica", Stefani D'Agata D'Ottavi
TEAMS Secular Commentary Series
Brunetto Latini's La rettorica is the first Italian translation of Cicero's early and widely influential De inventione, and this volume is a translation of Latini's translation, including both Cicero's work and Brunetto's commentary.