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Virginitas: La crisi del mito della...

Brody, Annelise Morani.

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Virginitas: La crisi del mito della perfezione nella tradizione letteraria italiana del Rinascimento (Italian text, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lodovico Ariosto).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Virginitas: La crisi del mito della perfezione nella tradizione letteraria italiana del Rinascimento (Italian text, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lodovico Ariosto)./
Author:	Brody, Annelise Morani.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-10, Section: A, page: 3573.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3068123
ISBN:	0493876480

Virginitas: La crisi del mito della perfezione nella tradizione letteraria italiana del Rinascimento (Italian text, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lodovico Ariosto).
Brody, Annelise Morani.

Virginitas: La crisi del mito della perfezione nella tradizione letteraria italiana del Rinascimento (Italian text, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lodovico Ariosto). - 253 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-10, Section: A, page: 3573.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2003.

The topic of my thesis is the crisis that occurred in the conception of virginity during the late Medieval to early Renaissance periods in Italian literature. I have investigated how Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto confronted the authority of the Church Fathers, challenging the relevance of virginity, chastity and the myth of perfection.

ISBN: 0493876480Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

Virginitas: La crisi del mito della perfezione nella tradizione letteraria italiana del Rinascimento (Italian text, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lodovico Ariosto).
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520 $a The topic of my thesis is the crisis that occurred in the conception of virginity during the late Medieval to early Renaissance periods in Italian literature. I have investigated how Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto confronted the authority of the Church Fathers, challenging the relevance of virginity, chastity and the myth of perfection.
520 $a The nucleus of the thesis shows that in all three authors' writings, the weakening of the redemptive power of virginity was directly connected to a questioning of the belief in man's destiny after death. Prior to the late Medieval period, the reward for virginity was to be found in the afterlife. But if this domain becomes uncertain, rewards must then to be sought and earned in this life. I argue that this reasoning underlies the spiritual crisis and failure of redemption in Petrarch's Canzoniere and Secretum.
520 $a In a complementary manner, Boccaccio's setting of the Decameron in an exclusively human realm shows that saving contemporary society (however imperfect it may be) is more urgent than acquiring a sort of "paradise-bound" perfection. Thus, from this perspective, the Decameron becomes a literary formulation of an ethical code whose utility lies within everyday experience and whose reward system comes in the formation of a civil society on earth. Whatever the Church Fathers may have said about virginity and chastity, for Boccaccio there were virtues far more compelling, such as caritas (charity) and compassion.
520 $a While Boccaccio disguises his polemic intent with humor, in Orlando Furioso Ariosto openly defies the Scriptures on the subject on virginity by changing the list of the traditional seven deadly sins: he removes lust and substitutes cruelty. Moreover he parodies the neoplatonic conception of love expressed by his contemporary, Ficino, by portraying "virtuous" heroes like Orlando and Rinaldo as enslaved and maddened by "the worldly Venus."
520 $a Thus all three authors expressed a new conception of virginity. In fact, I conclude by arguing that our modern, Western views on this subject originated from the late Medieval crisis of belief in the afterlife and in man's ability to achieve perfection on earth.
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