| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno XVIII , n° 1, Giugno 2000 ( Contributi ) | pag. 60-67 |
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A CRITICAL APPROACH TO FEMININE PRESENCE IN EARLY MODERN ITALIAN POETRY: GENRE AND GENDER |
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| SILVIA RUFFO-FIORE | |
| University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida |
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Renaissance lyric poetry, especially the sonnet, offers an unusually rich context for the study of the elusive phenomenon of Feminine Presence. The lyric poetry, both on the Continent and in England, is pervaded with women figures, Laura, Helene, Cassandre, Delia, Stella, Silvia, Caelica, Gloriana, the Dark Lady, among others, protectively unnamed in the poetic discourse, who seem both to exert unparalleled emotional power and hold an enviable position of autonomy. While poets such as Dante, Petrarch, Ronsard, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, DuBellay, among others, elevated, idealized, and often mythologized the woman of their poems, this imagined status, whether in terms of the sexual or political being, did not coincide with reality. [...] |
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