Renaissance madrigal - Bembo Flashcards

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Dates

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1470-1547

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Education

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Padua and Messina

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Works

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Groundbreaking new editions of Petrarch (1501) and Dante (1502)

  • Rime (1530)
  • Prose della volgar lingua (1525)
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Petrarchini

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Pocket-sized books of Petrarch

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Opposition of two poetic categories

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Gravità - graveness - dignity - majesty

Piacevolezza - pleasantness, sweetness

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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

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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
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