Renaissance Poetics
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"This chapter reconstructs, for the fist time, the history of crucial intellectual controversies about the value and meaning of Greek tragedy in general and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in particular in 16th- and 17th- century Europe, from... more
From: The Blackwell Companion to Sophocles, ed. K. Ormand (Oxford 2012) 440–461
This chapter looks at the development of the doctrine of 'poetic justice' from Plato to the late 17th century and the role it played in the transformation of Aristotle's notion of tragic catharsis in the Renaissance theory of tragedy and... more
A trope is the transfer of a word from its usual meaning to a different one, justified by a relation of similitude, or of another kind, between the two meanings. Early modern students of grammar and rhetoric memorized the tropes and... more
The Renaissance tradition of the courtly love sonnet-sequence is noted for the idealization and sublimation of the lady, the love object, by the poet through writing. Yet, I would like to claim that Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti stands out in... more
La polémica que surgió a partir de 1614 en torno a la oscuridad poética de los grandes poemas de Luis de Góngora ―la "Fábula de Polifemo" y las "Soledades"― no fue una disputa circunscrita sólo a ámbitos eruditos. Desde los métodos por... more
Prosodie - Metrik - Rhythmus (Appendices: Zäsur - Synkope) in der antiken und nachantiken Literaturtheorie: Grundlagen einer allgemeineren Verslehre.
El presente artículo se ocupa de examinar la interpretación y crítica que realiza Alonso López Pinciano (1547-¿?) en la Epístola tercera (“De la esencia y causas de la poética”) de su Filosofía Antigua Poética (1596), el más conocido... more
Draft chapter for the edited volume Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Image, ed. Susanna Berger and Dan Garber, Series Archimedes, Springer (forthcoming).
This chapter looks at the first attempts to make sense of Aristotle's concept of tragic hamartia and the insurmountable difficulties Renaissance scholars and literary critics faced while trying to reconcile it with their own theoretical,... more
This book presents a study of one of the most important literary polemics of the seventeenth century in which Lope de Vega was involved, the polemic about the new poetic language used by Luis de Gongora. This question is studied here... more
Giulio Camillo's Memory Theatre and his literary theory considered in their influence on later sixteenth century Italian poetics, art theory and decorative painting
This is a comprehensive reassessment of Aristotle's concept of tragic hamartia, and its different interpretations from the 1530s to the present day, in the context of Aristotle's theory of action.
Il ritrovamento presso la Biblioteca Civica Vincenzo Joppi di Udine dell’unico esemplare sopravissuto della prima edizione del De ratione dicendi di Francesco Robortello, stampata a Bologna nel 1560 dai fratelli Giovanni Battista e... more
This chapter reflects on the ways in which imaginative literature probes, troubles, and illuminates the relation between knowledge and faith through aesthetic mediation in post-Reformation England. In the process, it at once puts pressure... more
Deutsche Fassung von "Contempt for Commentators". Der Aufsatz skizziert Daniel Heinsius' Verachtung für die Philologie, wie sie in seinen "Orationes" zum Ausdruck kommt. Die These lautet, dass diese Verachtung in Heinsius' neuplatonischer... more
Made of recycled clothes, slaughtered animals, and felled trees, Bibles in Renaissance England were filled with visible traces of ecological matter, remainders that remind one that words on a page are thought fused with—and inflected... more
Cet ouvrage présente d’une façon toute nouvelle l'humaniste italien, Francesco Robortello (1516-1567), réputé pour avoir, le premier, commenté intégralement la "Poétique" d'Aristote. Il insiste sur le pédagogue, éditeur, philologue et... more
Este trabajo resume parte de lo que fue mi tesis doctoral, dedicada a las teorías de la risa en el humanismo quinientista. Se trata de un estudio sobre el primer opúsculo dedicado a este tema, el tratado "De Ridiculis" (1550) de Vincenzo... more
in «La sinonimia tra 'langue' e 'parole' nei codici francese e italiano», Atti del Convegno, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, 24-27 ottobre 2007, a cura di Sergio CIGADA, Marisa VERNA, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2008.
In der Renaissance wurde das Altgriechische als Literatursprache für das westliche Europa wieder neu entdeckt und durch Humanisten wie Angelo Poliziano und Markos Musuros in eigenen griechischen Dichtungen propagiert. In ihrer Nachfolge... more
Indice. I. La construcción de una teoría de los efectos del sonido verbal. 1. La fluidez oratoria. 2. G. Trapzuntius y la latinización del De Compositione Verborum. 3. El Actius de Pontano o de la sonoridad virgiliana. 4, Tradición... more
This essay considers how the garden as theme and metaphor worked with the garden as planned topography. The symbolic character of Renaissance gardens, where human fulfilment is figured in the perfection of place, appears alongside... more
This article investigates the connection between the all-important concept of invention within the literary terminology of sixteenth-century England and the perception of translation during this period. Invention is discussed as a concept... more
This thesis explores the place of medieval French literature in the formation of national identity in sixteenth-century France. It focuses on an unpublished and little-studied manuscript miscellany, the Veilles ou Observations de... more
Résumé Notre paradigme actuel du discours vernaculaire en France pendant le seizième siècle est foncièrement coloré, d’un côté, par la poétique classique de la « translatio » dont la Pléiade s’est fait la championne, et de l’autre par... more
in Emmanuel BURY et Francine MORA (eds), Du roman courtois au roman baroque, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2004, pp. 415-435.