On Petrarca, Gaspara Stampa, and Desire
Abstract
The essay moves from the reading of Petrarch’s poetry as a “system” aimed at exploring and expressing the theme of desire, within which Laura represents a sort of “function” that sets writing in motion, of which she is the “figure”. Gaspara Stampa has captured the founding nucleus of this system, and her poetry should be read as a reflection on that same theme. For these reasons, her production must be freed from a necessary relationship of dependence with respect to biography, and the presence of cognitive and at least in a broad philosophical sense that the critical tradition has denied both to Stampa and more generally to the Petrarchism not only female.
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