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This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

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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 Desespoir Conclusion

The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance

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      Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9781580442640, 978-1580442640
      ISBN10: 1580442641

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

      Table of Contents
      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 Desespoir Conclusion

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