Ronsard's Contentious Sisters

Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard

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Roberto Campo

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North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

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This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut pictura poesis ("as is painting, so is poetry"). The book explores issues that, despite their importance throughout Ronsard's poetry and the writings of leading paragone theorists such as Leone Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, have remained largely unnoticed. In broadest terms, Roberto Campo investigates the poet's notions about the differences between poems and pictures. More precisely, it examines Ronsard's views on two fundamental preoccupations of the theoretical and practical discussions about the arts during the Renaissance: which mode of expression, word or image, can more accurately and meaningfully represent natural realities and abstract celestial truths; and thus, whose art, the poet's or the painter's, holds the highest station in the hierarchy of human creative endeavor?

Release date Australia

January 30th, 1998

Author

Roberto Campo

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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Illustrations, ports.

Pages

200

Series

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780807892619

Product ID

6290455

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