Madrigal (literature)

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The madrigal is a literary form of Italian lyric poetry of the 14th century. It originated from the musical form of the Trecento madrigal of the 14th century, mostly two-part unaccompanied vocal pieces, and is related to the rondeau and the ballad .

In the 15th century the Trecento madrigal was forgotten as a musical practice and transformed into a purely literary form.

The literary madrigal usually consists of two or three stanzas with three double verses and a subsequent refrain of two rhyming verses. Punch was once the most important form of Italian love poetry. The most important representative of the madrigal is Petrarch .

literature

• Karl Vossler : The German Madrigal. History of its development until the middle of the XVIII. Century. Weimar 1898.