Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - Italian

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work.

Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than...

In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. Slavitt renders the sonnets in Il Canzoniere, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do justice to Petrarch's...

Dantes 'Gottliche Komodie' gehort zu den bedeutendsten Schopfungen der Weltliteratur. Obwohl das Thema der Gerechtigkeit dort von zentraler Bedeutung ist, haben es bislang eher die Romanisten als die Juristen unternommen, den rechtsphilosophischen Gehalt der Dichtung zu ermessen. Das ist insofern uberraschend, als Dantes wohl zeitgleich entstandene 'Monarchia' zu den wichtigsten rechtsphilosophischen Entwurfen des Hochmittelalters gehort. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht daher den in der Gottlichen Komodie zum Ausdruck kommenden Gerechtigkeitssinn Dantes unter Berucksichtigung seines...

Mit dem Dantejubilaum von 1921 setzt in Deutschland eine Renaissance der Beschaftigung mit dem italienischen Dichter ein, die nicht nur die universitare Forschung (Karl Vossler, Ulrich Leo, Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, E.R. Curtius, Hugo Friedrich u. a.) erfat, sondern sich auch in zahlreichen divulgativen Schriften zu Dante niederschlagt. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht die Frage nach der Funktionalisierung des italienischen Dichters in der Zeit des NS-Regimes, die sich als uberaus ambivalent darstellt: Wahrend Dante einerseits als Prototyp des Germanen herausgestellt und zum...

The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the ""sweet new style"" that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante's poetry was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice, Cavalcanti's poetry had more the tang of real-world experience: he struggled against unruly passions and sought instead to overcome love - a source of torment and despair.

It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that...