Litanic Verse IV

lt;p>This book traces a history of litanic verse in Italian poetry including considerations on musical and performative aspects of certain lyric genres (lauda, sonnet and ode or canzonetta). The analysis concerns the development of litanic verse in Italian poetry, from the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.

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lt;p>Litanic verse is based on different syntactic and rhetorical devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. Its Italian variants are not to be seen as a mere convention of versification, but as a multifactorial phenomenon, which involves semantic and performative aspects as well. The variants reveal their different faces within various periods, beginning with the Duecento. This book analyzes Italian poetry up until the first decades of the twentieth century, together with certain musical pieces that are closely related to the history of literature. The monograph is the fourth of five volumes devoted to the emergence and development of litanic verse in the literature of European regions.