Renaissance madrigal - Bembo Flashcards
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Dates
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1470-1547
2
Q
Education
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Padua and Messina
3
Q
Works
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Groundbreaking new editions of Petrarch (1501) and Dante (1502)
- Rime (1530)
- Prose della volgar lingua (1525)
4
Q
Petrarchini
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Pocket-sized books of Petrarch
5
Q
Opposition of two poetic categories
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Gravità - graveness - dignity - majesty
Piacevolezza - pleasantness, sweetness
6
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Derivation of theory (McKinnery)
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Study of Petrarch’s drafts
Found that Petrarch’s revisions often changed the sound of a line rather than its literal meaning
7
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Poetic qualities manifest at three levels
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Numero
- speech rhythm
- syllable lengths/accents
Suono
- rhyme
- word-sound
- qualities of consonant and vowel sounds
Variazione
- principle to govern numero and suono
- balance between the two qualities