The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

by Gabriella Scarlatta

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580442641
• ISBN13: 9781580442640
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"