Lettere e Rime
Introduzione e commento
Auteur
Matraini, Chiara
Contributor(s)
Acucella, Cristina (editor)
Language
ItalianRésumé
The commentary of Lettere e rime which Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) published in Venice with the editor Moretti in 1597, when she was 82, intends to provide an organic analysis of the composition, of the relationship between the genres, of the modalities of the “imitatio” and of the philosophical, social and cultural substrate acting as a background in her last chansonnier. The study also focuses on her stylistic changes over a period of forty years (1555-1597), from the adherence to Petrarch and Bembo’s canon to the end-of-the-century Mannerism, as well as on the counter-reformist twist characterizing a parallel writing of philosophical and devotional nature, which can be seen here between the lines. The investigation also takes the liber of Lettere e rime as a deliberately organic and structured whole in the meeting between the letters and the poems. By virtue of its ‘marginality’ as well, this shows a complex work, emerging together with the many afterthoughts which animated the long, almost century-long, life of the author from Lucca.
ISBN
9788864538174, 9788864538167, 9788892730779Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
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Florence, 2018Series
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»,Classification
Linguistics
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literature: history and criticism