Dal chiostro alla corte. Poesia per musica tra Medioevo e Rinascimento

The research project, with the suggestive title Dal chiostro alla corte. Poesia per musica tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, was born in a size perfect fit with a Ph.D. in Italian Studies in its historical and geographical components and, in particular, the interference specifications. Two are, in fact, the disciplines that come together in this work: poetry and music. Two disciplines that have always seen the interweaving of their historical-artistic individual, in the manner and in various forms. Here, then, the first unfolding of a historical dimension that analyzes precisely these locations: the distant, but seminal, greek civilization, Greek and Roman civilizations to the Renaissance, through the manifold experiences of the Latin Middle Ages and the emerging European culture, in which the classical matrix, permeated by the new Christian spirit, meets that of the peoples called "barbarians". Alongside this historical dimension is implicit the flank of a geographical dimension, since the axis of research moves chronologically, from Greece to Italy Roman and Christian, and therefore, the clergy of France, first, and troubadours then followed by a further shift geographically - and, of course, historic - from Provence to Italy Two-fourteenth century, without forgetting a small jump in the Germany of Minnesänger. A historical and geographical trail that ends in Renaissance Italy where, with the experiments of Monteverdi, poetry and music is coming to specific routes that lead to experimental music, on the one hand, and the lyric poetry - which will involve a language "third party" the theater - on the other. .. [edited by Author]