Contrasto

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The Contrasto ( Italian language contrasto "contrast, dispute") is a lyrical genre of Italian, primarily Sicilian, poetry since the Middle Ages. It belongs to the type of controversial poem , is influenced by the earlier Provencal Joc partit and is formally close to the Tenzone : in the dialogical Contrasto two people - often understood as allegorical - appear who represent a position in individual stanzas assigned to them .

Well-known examples from the 13th century are the Rosa fresca aulentissima attributed to Cielo d'Alcamo and the Contrastos by Jacopone da Todi .

literature

  • Dorothee Heller: Studies on the Italian “contrasto”. A contribution to the genre-historical development of the controversial poem . Dissertation. Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1991
  • Antonia Arveda (Ed.): Contrasti amorosi nella poesia italiana antica . Rome 1992. ISBN 88-8402-093-X
  • Simonetta Bianchini: Cielo d'Alcamo e il suo contrasto. Intertestualità romance nella scuola poetica siciliana . Soveria Mannelli 1996. ISBN 88-7284-479-7