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The "Disperata", from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

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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.

Author(s): Gabriella Scarlatta
Series: Medieval Institute Publications. Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 17
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 336
City: Kalamazoo

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Italian 'Disperata': Origins and Definitions 1
The Female-Voiced 'Disperata' 49
The 'Disperata' in the Quattrocento 81
The 'Disperata' in the Cinquecento 139
The 'Disperata' in France 169
Disperata and Désespoir 233
Conclusion 271
Bibliography 277
Index 299