Guido Cavalcanti : : The Other Middle Ages / / Maria Luisa Ardizzone.
Guido Cavalcanti (d. 1300) is one of the greatest Italian poets of all time. His legacy consists of some fifty poems, of which his canzone on the nature of love, Donna me prega (A lady asks me) is the most famously difficult and complex. The poem is important not only because it sheds light on funda...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note On Editions Of Guido Cavalcanti's Texts
- Introduction
- 1. Love As A Metaphor: The Discourse And The Method
- 2. Vision And Logic
- 3. Love As Passion
- 4. Pleasure And Intellectual Happiness: Guido Cavalcanti And Giacomo Da Pistoia
- 5. Cavalcanti at the Centre of the Western Canon: Ezra Pound as Reader of Donna me prega
- Appendix A. Donna me prega: The Italian Text and an English Translation
- Appendix B. The Letters of Ezra Pound and Etienne Gilson
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index