Litanic Verse IV (Literary and Cultural Theory)

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Litanic verse is based on different syntactic and rhetorical devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. Its Italian variants are not to be seen as a mere convention of versification, but as a multifactorial phenomenon, which involves semantic and performative aspects as well. The variants reveal their different faces within various periods, beginning with the Duecento. This book analyzes Italian poetry up until the first decades of the twentieth century, together with certain musical pieces that are closely related to the history of literature. The monograph is the fourth of five volumes devoted to the emergence and development of litanic verse in the literature of European regions. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Litany in Italy from the Latin Middle Ages to the Present Marian Litanies The Saints A “Litany” of Seamen Part I: Around the Lauda, Hymn and Spiritual Poetry 1 Confraternities of Praise 1.1 The Form of Lauda 2 Francis of Assisi’s Laudes creaturarum 3 Litanic-Enumerative Segments in the Early Anonymous Lauda 3.1 Lauda-orazione 3.2 Laudario di Cortona 3.3 The Holy Spirit 4 Jacopone da Todi 4.1 An Authored Laudario 4.2 Amor-Iesù 4.3 Shorter Verses 5 Laudario di Santa Croce di Urbino: Rhythmical-Metrical Formulas 5.1 De Dulcedine Amoris Christi 5.2 The Possibility of a Phrasal Versification in the Early Lauda 6 The Condemned and the Saints in the Laudario di
Santa Maria della Morte 6.1 The “Lauda with Litanies” 6.2 Idio Soprano 6.3 The Marian Lauda 6.4 Conclusions 7 Text and Music in the Laudario giustinianeo 7.1 Textual Litanic Characters 7.2 Mystical Lauda 7.3 The Marian Lauda 7.4 The Holy Spirit and the Saints 7.5 Some Musical Aspects 7.6 Music and Litany in the Laudas of Giustinian 7.7 “Vergine bella” 7.8 Conclusions 8 Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 9 Laudatory and Hymnic Poetry in the Heart of the Modern Era 9.1 “Sentiments grands, nobles, et humains” in Alessandro Manzoni 9.2 Giosuè Carducci’s Prayer to Satan 9.3 Oropa and “oropee:” The Poetry of Giovanni Camerana 10 D’Annunzio’s Laudistic Experiment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 10.1 Alcyone 10.2 Elettra 10.3 Maia 10.4 Canti della guerra latina 10.5 Conclusions Part II: Around the Sonnet 11 The Sonnet 11.1 The Subdued Religiosity of the Sicilian School 12 Poetry as an Authentic Expression of Love in the Stilnovo Authors 12.1 Dante’s La Vita Nuova 13 Petrarch’s Litanic Connectors 14 Boccaccio’s Sonnet 14.1 The Early Sonnet: Conclusions 15 The Cinquecento 15.1 Gaspara Stampa’s Love Commendation 15.2 Veronica Gambara’s Rime Leggiadre 15.3 Vittoria Colonna and Her Spiritual Petrarchism 16 Tommaso Campanella: Sonnet and Philosophy at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century 16.1 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Conclusion 17 The Nineteenth Century: A Portrait of an Epoch 17.1 Self-Portraits of Sonneteers: Alfieri—Foscolo—Manzoni 17.2 After the Midcentury: Mameli and Carducci 18 Attributes, Portraits and Landscapes: Towards the Twentieth Century 19 The Persistence of a Form 19.1 Corazzini’s and Gozzano’s Sonnets 19.2 Giovanni Fiorini’s Chaplet of Sonnets 19.3 Conclusions Part III: Around the Canzonetta and Ode 20 The Seventeenth Century 20.1 Chiabrera and the Beginnings of the Canzonetta 21 The Poetry and Opera Metastasiana 21.1 The Poetry 21.2 The Melodrama 21.3 Singing in the Eighteenth Century: Words and Music in the Da Capo Aria 21.4 Metastasio’s Profane Arietta 21.5 Betulia Liberata 21.6 The Azione Sacra 21.7 Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata 21.8 Conclusions 22 Towards the Risorgimento 22.1 Formal and Thematic Models at the Beginning of the Century 22.2 Poets of the Risorgimento 23 Recalling the Ancient Glories: Giosuè Carducci’s Odi barbare 23.1 Invocative and Iterative Patterns 23.2 Conclusions Part IV: Around the Twentieth-Century Experimentations 24 The Early Years 24.1 Aldo Palazzeschi’s Repetitive Modules 24.2 Corrado Govoni’s Low-Register Litanies 25 Marinetti’s Litanic Layout 26 The Profane and Sacrum of Giuseppe Ungaretti Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names