Michelangelo on Parnassus

The Reception of the Poems Among Writers
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50351-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Michelangelo wrote the Poems to directly confront themes to which as an artist he could not give the type of expression that he wished. To do so, he chose harsh language, which was distant from the transparent idiom of the Cinquecento. Critics have generally been cautious, often hostile, toward his ‘second trade.' By contrast, writers, appreciating their quality, have greeted his poems in a completely different manner.


This book presents an original investigation of the relationship of a variety of authors (Varchi, Aretino, Foscolo, Wordsworth, Stendhal, Mann, Montale, Morante and others) with Buonarroti’s verse. Through close analysis of the texts, it shows why Michelangelo should hold a more noble position on Parnassus than that which historiography has hitherto granted him.


This book is a translation of Michelangelo in Parnaso: La ricezione delle Rime tra gli scrittori (Venice: Marsilio Editori. 2019).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cascio, Gandolfo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Note

Bibliographical Note and Abbreviations

Illustrations

Introduction: Conversations among Writers

1 The Cinquecento

1 Responding in Verse

2 The Prose Writers

3 Michelangelo on Parnassus

2 From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

1 The First Edition

2 Beyond Italy

3 The Twentieth Century: Critical Reception

1 Dante, Petrarch and Michelangelo

2 For the Quincentenary

3 Anthologies between the Two Millennia

4 Seductions

4 The Twentieth Century: Creative Reception

1 The Strong Poets

2 Distillations

5 Translations

1 Translations by Poets

2 The Poems in Music

3 Portraits as a Poet

Conclusion

Illustrations

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Gandolfo Cascio is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Translation at the University of Utrecht, where he also directs the Observatory on Dante Studies research project. His research interests are poetry and aesthetic reception. His latest books are Le ore del meriggio. Saggi critici (Il Convivio 2020; winner of the G.A. Borgese Prize) and Dolci detti. Dante, la letteratura e i poeti (Marsilio 2021; N. Martoglio Award).