In this book, Francesca Nencioni uses semantics to reconstruct, with skill and intelligence, the 'characters' and 'specimens' of the Hermetic prose (Parronchi, I giorni sensibili; Luzi, Biografia e Ebe; Bigongiari, La donna miriade; Gatto, La sposa bambina), proposing a new way of reading the works which marked the early Hermetic period in Florence. Using stylistic tools, analysis of language, rhythm and melody, and a comparative perspective shifting continuously among the genres, the author gives new semantics to the category of absence (through female metamorphosis, transience and death), and explores the coordinates of time (the hours of day, the movements of stars and planets, the alternation of seasons) and space (the four elements, the beloved places and the real landscapes), then combines synchronic investigation with an excursus on the study of semantic variables in the two editions of Biografia e Ebe and La sposa bambina.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
La prosa dell'ermetismo: caratteri e esemplari
Authors
Francesca Nencioni
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
272
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-365-0
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-364-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-365-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-262-9
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297