Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love
Paolo Cherchi
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Hardback. Cherchi offers an innovative interpretation and a close reading of selected poems. He traces the history of Proven al lyric poetry, highlighting some of the significant personalities and movements. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
A resolution to the vexed problem whether a troubadour's love is erotic or spiritual is offered by Paolo Cherchi through a new reading of Andreas Capellanus' De Amore (written around 1186-1196). He suggests that Andreas, using a rhetorical strategy that creates ambiguity, condemns courtly love because its claim that passion generates virtue is untenable and deceitful. Although Andreas grasped the core of the courtly love 'system,' namely, the relation between passion and ethics, he failed to consider the notion of mezura, that courtly virtue through which troubadours transformed nature into culture, and erotic passion into social discourse.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802005779
SKU
V9780802005779
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About Paolo Cherchi
Paolo Cherchi is a member of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love
'In its suggestion that the paradox that so pervades courtly love is as much a social as a literary phenomenon, Paolo Cherchi's book offers an extremely interesting argument that is well worth the reading.'
Sarah Spence
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Sarah Spence
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