UID:
almafu_9960011218402883
Format:
1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:
90-04-38895-8
Content:
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 Language assesses this long tradition in a series of essays covering a wide chronological and thematic range, while crossing from historical linguistics to literary and cultural studies. It offers elements for reflection on cross-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, and demonstrates the power of beauty as a fundamental category beyond aesthetics.
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Front Matter --
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Copyright page --
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Figures --
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Introduction /
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Forms and Variations of Lemmata Indicating “Beauty” in Literary Italian and the Common Language /
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“Bellezze ed adornezze e piacimento”: The Concept of Beauty in the Sicilian School /
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Beauty as a Forma Mentis: Francis of Assisi /
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From Earthly Venus to Heavenly Venus: On the Evolution of the Concept of Beauty in Girolamo Benivieni /
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The “True Form” of Beauty: Poetry and Portraits from Petrarch to the Sixteenth Century /
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“Love is Naught But a Certain Desire to Enjoy Beauty”: Castiglione and Raffaello /
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The Principle of Beauty in the Literary Criticism of the Sixteenth Century /
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Beauty at the Limit: The Baroque “Body”, with Reference to Adonis /
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Words for Beauty: Giuseppe Parini between Ideal Cities and the Decadence of the World /
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Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in Some Unpublished Poems by Giulio Bajamonti /
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“The Profound Beauty is Greatness”: Itinerary in Giovanni Boine’s Aesthetics /
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The Origins of Beauty in Leopardi’s Zibaldone /
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History of a Modest Beauty: Models of Woman’s Aesthetics from Fermo e Lucia to I promessi sposi /
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The “Second Beauty”: Ideas of Politeness and Beauty in Italian Books of Manners /
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Fosca and Her Sisters: Origins and Hypostases of the “Medusean Beauty” in the Narrative of the Scapigliatura /
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Reconsidering Fin de Siècle Aestheticism: The Case of Gabriele D’Annunzio /
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Paradise Saved and Lost of Fin de Siècle Aesthetics: Matelda and Mariana in the Works of Giovanni Pascoli /
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Eugenio Montale: For the “Incredible, Wonderful Face” of Clizia, between Photographs, Letters, the Palio and Other Verses /
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P.V. Tondelli and the Cannibals’ Generation in Search of the Lost Beauty /
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Translated from the Italian dialect of Sicilian.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-38894-X
Language:
English
