The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language : Il Buono Amore è Di Bellezza Disio.
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2019
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1 Forms and Variations of Lemmata Indicating "Beauty" in Literary Italian and the Common Language; Chapter 2 "Bellezze ed adornezze e piacimento": The Concept of Beauty in the Sicilian School; Chapter 3 Beauty as a Forma Mentis: Francis of Assisi; Chapter 4 From Earthly Venus to Heavenly Venus: On the Evolution of the Concept of Beauty in Girolamo Benivieni; Chapter 5 The "True Form" of Beauty: Poetry and Portraits from Petrarch to the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 6 "Love is Naught But a Certain Desire to Enjoy Beauty": Castiglione and Raffaello
- Chapter 7 The Principle of Beauty in the Literary Criticism of the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 8 Beauty at the Limit: The Baroque "Body", with Reference to Adonis; Chapter 9 Words for Beauty: Giuseppe Parini between Ideal Cities and the Decadence of the World; Chapter 10 Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in Some Unpublished Poems by Giulio Bajamonti; Chapter 11 "The Profound Beauty is Greatness": Itinerary in Giovanni Boine's Aesthetics; Chapter 12 The Origins of Beauty in Leopardi's Zibaldone
- Chapter 13 History of a Modest Beauty: Models of Woman's Aesthetics from Fermo e Lucia to I promessi sposiChapter 14 The "Second Beauty": Ideas of Politeness and Beauty in Italian Books of Manners; Chapter 15 Fosca and Her Sisters: Origins and Hypostases of the "Medusean Beauty" in the Narrative of the Scapigliatura; Chapter 16 Reconsidering Fin de Siècle Aestheticism: The Case of Gabriele D'Annunzio; Chapter 17 Paradise Saved and Lost of Fin de Siècle Aesthetics: Matelda and Mariana in the Works of Giovanni Pascoli
- Chapter 18 Eugenio Montale: For the "Incredible, Wonderful Face" of Clizia, between Photographs, Letters, the Palio and Other VersesChapter 19 P.V. Tondelli and the Cannibals' Generation in Search of the Lost Beauty; Index of Concepts; Index of Names
