Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime
Federica Anichini
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Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime

Voci del corpo. Grammatica liminale nelle Rime di Guido Cavalcanti

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Guido Cavalcanti, the first thirteenth-century author to gain the reputation of an auctoritas while still alive, has been handed down by literary tradition mainly for his Canzone Donna me prega, a dense philosophical treatise about love.This book looks at the Rime from the perspective of the minor poems, in which Cavalcanti demonstrates his theoretical conclusion by staging the venture of a lover inescapably doomed. Mired in his sensations, the lover exemplifies an existence that falls short of the faculty of imagination, therefore of the vision of God. The terrestrial perfection available to ...