Il mito classico nella letteratura italiana. Dal neoclassicismo al decadentismo (review)
2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/itc.2006.0027
ISSN1559-0909
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Analyses
Resumopractical agency of the English people as an entity opposed to the powers of Catholic Europe" (164).Petrarchism has here become the occasion for an elaborate theory of the state and its relation to the various sectors of the population.Commenting on what has of course been the largest legacy of Petrarchism, poetic discourses on love, Kennedy remarks on Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Wroth's Pamphilia and Amphilanthus: "A striking feature of these sonnets is that their amatory entanglements reflect historical tensions and cultural conflicts in the emerging national sentiment, even though their literary pedigree is predominantly foreign, issuing from the Continental matrix of Italy, France, and Spain, and the papacy that Protestant England sought to define itself against.The contrast is odd" (165).Again, Kennedy's sensitivity to history and its disciplinary specificity adds a too seldom seen and highly valuable dimension to close textual readings.Kennedy finishes with commentaries on Sidney's Defence of Poetry and Astrophil and Stella, and Mary Wroth's work.This reader would have liked to have seen some pages on the Petrarchan poetry of Edmund Spenser, as Kennedy specifically credits its origins to Petrarch, Marot, and Du Bellay
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