| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 383 pages) |
| Contents |
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of the World; Chapter 10 Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in Some Unpublished Poems by Giulio Bajamonti; Chapter 11 "The Profound Beauty is Greatness": Itinerary in Giovanni Boine's Aesthetics; Chapter 12 The Origins of Beauty in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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2021) |
| Subject |
Arts, Italian -- Themes, motives
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Aesthetics, Italian.
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Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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ART / History / General
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Estética -- Italia
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Literatura italiana
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Lengua italiana
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Aesthetics, Italian
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Arts, Italian -- Themes, motives
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Italian literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Di Felice, Claudio, editor
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Hendrix, Harald, editor
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Bossier, Philiep, editor
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| LC no. |
2018049770 |
| ISBN |
9789004388956 |
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9004388958 |
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