Renaissance Literature and Art
Dante Alighieri | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Domenico Mantova | Milton | William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Paradiso
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XIV,1 |
Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABBA. |
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XIV,28-29 |
Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABCDEDCBA. |
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XIV,40-51 |
Sowell Lectura Dantis 16-17:198-212; ABCBA. |
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
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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
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1-4 |
Thomasson; ABBA. |
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5-8 |
Thomasson; ABBA. |
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9-11 |
Thomasson; CDC. |
Milton, Sonnet XIV (structural similarity to Mantova noted by W. Davies in Athenaeum, Sept 29, 1888 – Smart 71)
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Thomasson; ABBA rhyme structure. |
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Thomasson; ABBA rhyme structure. |
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Thomasson; CDC rhyme structure. |
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Thomasson; DCD rhyme structure (last three lines). |
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Prise d’Orange |
Schurfranz Romance Philology 33:247-264; “ring composition”; ABCDEFEDCBA. |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Macbeth |
A. Paul Torture of the Mind |
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Richard 3 |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 240, ABA, 243, ABCDEFEDCBA; 250, ABCDDCBBCDDCBA. |
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Henry 6 |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 242, ABA; 245, ABBAABA; 247, ABBA, ABBA; 249, ABBA; 249-50, ABCDEFEDCBA. |
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Richard 2 |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 242-43, ABBA. |
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Merchant of Venice |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 244, ABABBABA. |
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Macbeth |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 248, ABBA; 251, ABA. |
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Merry Wives |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 248-49, ABCDDCBABCDDCBA. |
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Romeo and Juliette |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 250, ABCDEDCBA; 252, ABBA, ABCBA, abcddcba, 252-53, ABBABBAABBAABBABBX; 253, ABA. |
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All’s Well |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 253, ABA. |
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Hamlet |
Davis, “Structural Secrets,” 254, ABBAABBABCDCBA. |