Renaissance Literature and Art

Dante AlighieriMichelangelo BuonarrotiDomenico MantovaMiltonWilliam Shakespeare

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Paradiso

XIV,1

Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABBA.

XIV,28-29

Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABCDEDCBA.

XIV,40-51

Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABCBA.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel)

Christ at center, with saved on his right, the damned on the left.  Bisected halves/triptych.

Sonnet by Domenico Mantova of Brescia, 1553

1-4

Thomasson; ABBA.

5-8

Thomasson; ABBA.

9-11

Thomasson; CDC.

Milton, Sonnet XIV (structural similarity to Mantova noted by W. Davies in Athenaeum, Sept 29, 1888 – Smart 71)

 

Thomasson; ABBA rhyme structure.

 

Thomasson; ABBA rhyme structure.

 

Thomasson; CDC rhyme structure.

 

Thomasson; DCD rhyme structure (last three lines).

 

Prise d’Orange

Schurfranz Romance Philology 33:247-264; “ring composition”; ABCDEFEDCBA.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Macbeth

A. Paul Torture of the Mind

Richard 3

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 240, ABA, 243, ABCDEFEDCBA; 250, ABCDDCBBCDDCBA.

Henry 6

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 242, ABA; 245, ABBAABA; 247, ABBA, ABBA; 249, ABBA; 249-50, ABCDEFEDCBA.

Richard 2

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 242-43, ABBA.

Merchant of Venice

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 244, ABABBABA.

Macbeth

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 248, ABBA; 251, ABA.

Merry Wives

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 248-49, ABCDDCBABCDDCBA.

Romeo and Juliette

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 250, ABCDEDCBA; 252, ABBA, ABCBA, abcddcba, 252-53, ABBABBAABBAABBABBX; 253, ABA.

All’s Well

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 253, ABA.

Hamlet

Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 254, ABBAABBABCDCBA.