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The metabolism of desire : the poetry of Guido Cavalcanti /
The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the "sweet new style" that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Edmonton, AB :
AU Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Mingling voices.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the "sweet new style" that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante's poetry was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice, Cavalcanti's poetry had more the tang of real-world experience: he struggled against unruly passions and sought instead to overcome love - a source of torment and despair. It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that English-speaking readers h. |
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| Notas: | Text in Italian and English, with the English translation following the poem in its original Italian. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (149 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781926836867 1926836863 9781926836850 1926836855 9781926836843 1926836847 1280486759 9781280486753 9786613581983 6613581984 |
| ISSN: | 1917-9413 |