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The idea of beauty in Italian literature and language : "il buono amore è di bellezza disio" /

Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language. The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Languag...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Di Felice, Claudio (Editor ), Hendrix, Harald (Editor ), Bossier, Philiep (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1 Forms and Variations of Lemmata Indicating "Beauty" in Literary Italian and the Common Language; Chapter 2 "Bellezze ed adornezze e piacimento": The Concept of Beauty in the Sicilian School; Chapter 3 Beauty as a Forma Mentis: Francis of Assisi; Chapter 4 From Earthly Venus to Heavenly Venus: On the Evolution of the Concept of Beauty in Girolamo Benivieni; Chapter 5 The "True Form" of Beauty: Poetry and Portraits from Petrarch to the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 6 "Love is Naught But a Certain Desire to Enjoy Beauty": Castiglione and Raffaello; Chapter 7 The Principle of Beauty in the Literary Criticism of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 8 Beauty at the Limit: The Baroque "Body", with Reference to Adonis; Chapter 9 Words for Beauty: Giuseppe Parini between Ideal Cities and the Decadence of the World; Chapter 10 Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in Some Unpublished Poems by Giulio Bajamonti; Chapter 11 "The Profound Beauty is Greatness": Itinerary in Giovanni Boine's Aesthetics; Chapter 12 The Origins of Beauty in Leopardi's Zibaldone; Chapter 13 History of a Modest Beauty: Models of Woman's Aesthetics from Fermo e Lucia to I promessi sposi; Chapter 14 The "Second Beauty": Ideas of Politeness and Beauty in Italian Books of Manners; Chapter 15 Fosca and Her Sisters: Origins and Hypostases of the "Medusean Beauty" in the Narrative of the Scapigliatura; Chapter 16 Reconsidering Fin de Siècle Aestheticism: The Case of Gabriele D'Annunzio; Chapter 17 Paradise Saved and Lost of Fin de Siècle Aesthetics: Matelda and Mariana in the Works of Giovanni Pascoli; Chapter 18 Eugenio Montale: For the "Incredible, Wonderful Face" of Clizia, between Photographs, Letters, the Palio and Other Verses; Chapter 19 P.V. Tondelli and the Cannibals' Generation in Search of the Lost Beauty; Index of Concepts; Index of Names