Gaspara Stampa’s «meste rime» between Petrarchism and Elegy
Abstract
This paper examines the main features of Gaspara Stampa’s Petrarchism. It shows that in the Rime there are two types of Petrarchism: micro-textual, that is related to the imitation of single Petrarch’s poems, and macro-textual, that is related to the organization of the poetic collection in the form of a canzoniere, following the structural model of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Then, it examines the author’s choice to replace the characterization of “sparse” – chosen by Petrarch to qualify his own «rime» - with that of «meste». Showing that in the previous lyric tradition the latter term had a close link with themes related to the semantic area of sorrow and loss, the paper argues that Stampa chose this adjective to indicate to the reader her personal choice of a poetic expression that combined Petrarchism and elegy.
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