Book · February 28, 2025
Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind of vocality which was rooted in the letters of antiquity and endured in the musical sub-genre of the lettera amorosa. ...
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Book · January 1, 2023
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643 ...
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Journal ArticleItalianist · January 1, 2020
Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone (1623) is the longest poem written in the Italian language. Exceeding even Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581) in length, L’Adone lacks the most central characteristic of epic poetry: a coherent narrative. As the quin ...
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Chapter · 2010
FOREWORD t is a great pleasure to see in print this volume of essays which
commemorates the Conference oTraditions in Western Plainchant" hosted by the
Gregorian Institute of Canada (GIC) at McMaster University in August 2009. ...
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