The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance FranceThis study explores how the themes of the disperata genre including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

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This volume features the largest collection of magical papyri in 25 years