Love and silence in the Renaissance: from the Italian novella tradition to its English legacy
| Autor: | Flavia Palma |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Painting business.industry English adaptations media_common.quotation_subject The Renaissance Bandello Art Comedy Love words Silence Power (social and political) silence Novella Settore L-FIL-LET/10 - Letteratura Italiana Narrative Love silence words Bandello English adaptations Relation (history of concept) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tropos; Vol 3, No 1 (2015): Bonds & Boundaries: Selected Contributions |
| ISSN: | 2057-2212 2057-2204 |
| Popis: | The Medieval and Renaissance European literary traditions are testimony to a habit of considering language as the primary medium for love, but there were also interesting exceptions connected to the opposite power of silence. Matteo Bandello’s novella III 17 is a case in point: the tale is centred upon the impotence of amorous words and the paradoxical power of silence. Bandello to some extent appropriated a topic already present in Boccaccio’s Decameron, but it was his novella that fascinated sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England: his tale appeared in both English prose and verse translations, as well as being adapted for the stage in a comedy. This paper considers how this peculiar relation between silence and words within love bonds was treated by Bandello and then appropriated both in narrative and theatrical contexts by English writers such as William Painter, Geoffrey Fenton, John God, Gervase Markham, and Lewis Machin.To read or download this article, please follow this link:http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502396DOI: 10.14324/111.2057-2212.058 |
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