Asprezza

Mehltretter, Florian (2022): Asprezza. Dante und die Ästhetik des Herben im Cinquecento. In: Artes, Bd. 1, Nr. 1: S. 69-123

Abstract

This article shows how a particular stylistic quality in Dante, here termed asprezza (‘harshness’), is discussed and imitated by 16th century Italian authors and how this process contributes to an awareness of stylistic options beyond mainstream Petrarchism. After a brief examination of Dante’s own theory and poetic practice of harshness, its reception and transformation in the Renaissance is analysed, including its role in fine art and music (especially Luca Marenzio’s 1599 setting of one of Dante’s canzoni petrose). It is argued that, paradoxically, High Renaissance attempts at decanonizing Dante in favour of Petrarch on stylistic grounds, especially for his ‘harsh’ writing, indirectly contributed to new aesthetic options, for which Dante became a kind of alternative model.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 2 > Italienische Philologie
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 450 Italienisch, Rumänisch, Rätoromanisch
• ISSN: 2772-7629 ; 2772-7610
• Sprache: Deutsch