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A Definition of Petrarchismo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John M. Berdan
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While the origin, sources, and evolution of the drama of the sixteenth century have been elaborately studied, curiously enough the non-dramatic literature of the period has suffered from comparative neglect. Monographs on single authors, studies on English literature alone, in many cases have erred thru false perspective. Thus, altho the time is not yet ripe for the general history of the sonnet, desired by M. Vaganay, it may be profitable briefly to consider English literature, in one of its phases, in relation to the great movement of which it was a part.

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PMLA , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1909 , pp. 699 - 710
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1909

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References

page 699 note 1 Hugues Vaganay, Le Sonnet en Italie et en France, Fasc. ii, p. xvi.

page 699 note 2 Ellis, Early English Pronunciation, 1, 405.

page 699 note 3 Skeat, Principles of English Etymology, First Series, p. 331.

page 699 note 4 Saintsbury, The Earlier Renaissance, p. 15.

page 699 note 5 Ascham, Toxophilus, Arber's reprint, p. 18.

page 700 note 1 Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, i, 251.

page 700 note 2 Skelton, ed. Dyce, i, 88.

page 700 note 3 Lounsbury, Chaucer, i, 265.

page 700 note 4 Drayton's Odes, English Garner, p. 529.

page 700 note 5 Skeat, Supplementary Volume to Chaucer, p. 409.

page 702 note 1 Ascham, Scholemaster, Arber's reprint, p. 79.

page 702 note 2 Ibid., p. 82.

page 702 note 3 Doni, La Libraria, In Vinegia, 1557, p. 24.

page 702 note 4 Ibid., p. 277.

page 703 note 1 Dieci Paradossi degli Academici Intronati da Siena, Milano, 1564.

page 703 note 2 Cf. Graf, Attraverso il Cinquecento, Torino, 1888, p. 20.

page 703 note 3 This numeration follows Mestica's edition.

page 704 note 1 Marius Piéri, Pétrarque et Ronsard, 1896, p. 268.

page 705 note 1 Guiseppe Finzi, Pétrarque, Sa Vie et Son Œuvre, Paris, 1906, p. 162.

page 705 note 2 Ariosto, Opere Minori, i, sonnet xxil.

Tutto è mirabil certo. Nondimeno
Non starò ch'io non dica arditamente,
Che piu mirabil molto è la mia fede.

page 706 note 1 Della Infinità Di Amore, di Tullia d'Aragona. Biblioteca Kara, xxix, p. 52. “L'amore onesto, il quale è proprio degli uomini nobili, cioè che hanno l'animo gentile, e virtuoso, qualunque essi siano o poveri, o ricchi, non è generato nel disiderio, come l'altro, ma dalla ragione, e ha per suo fine principale il trasformarsi nella cosa amata con disiderio che ella si trasformi in lui, tal che di due diventino un solo, o quattro; della qual trasformazione hanno favellato tante volte, e così leggiadramente sì messer Francesco Petrarca, sì il reverendissimo cardinal Bembo; la quale perchè non si può fare se non spiritai mente, quinci è che in cotale amore non hanno luogo principalmente se non i sentimenti spiritali: ciò è il vedere, e l'udire, e più assai, come più spiritale, la fantasia.”

page 707 note 1 Berdan, Modern Language Notes, February, 1908.

page 707 note 2 Berdan, Modern Language Review, January, 1909.

page 708 note 1 Elizabethan Sonnets, Sidney Lee, New York, n. d.

Sidney. “Gold is the covering of that stately place.” Son. ix.
Daniel. “These amber locks are those same nets, my Dear.” Son. vi.
Barnes. “In goldy locks.” Son. xix.
Lodge. “And gold more pure than gold doth gild thy hair.” Son. xvii.
Fletcher. “When as her hair (more worth, more pale, than gold).” Son. xxx.

Constable. “The crest was waves of gold.” Son. x.
Daniel. “When Winter snows upon thy golden hairs.” Son. xxxvii.
Anon. “The golden ceiling of thy brow's rich frame.” Canz. 17.
Spenser. “If gold, her locks are finest gold on ground.” Son. xv.
Griffin. “My lady's hair is threads of beaten gold.” Son. xxxii.
R. L. “Her hair exceeds gold forced in smallest wire.” Son. iii.
Smith. “Remembering her locks, of which the yellow hue Made blush the beauties of the curled wire.” Son. ix.
Tofte. “Then give me of thy hairs! which golden be.” Pt. 1, xii.

page 708 note 2 Op. cit., Fasc. ii, p. ix.

page 709 note 1 Koeppel, E., Studien zur Geschichte des englischen Petrarehismus, Romanische Forschungen, 5.

page 710 note 1 Alfred Michiels, Oeuvres de Desportes, 1858, p. xcii.