Corpi in gioco: la descriptio puellae nell’opera di Jerónimo Baía

Authors

  • Matteo Rei Università di Torino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/16267

Keywords:

portrait, lyric poetry, Baroque, Frei Jerónimo Baía, Petrarchism

Abstract

The paper examines five poems in which the Portuguese Baroque poet Frei Jerónimo Baía (1620-1688) depicts the portrait of the beloved woman. Each of these texts features the list of the different body parts praised for their beauty, following a model already present in the Petrarchist tradition. Baía combines to this model, like other authors of the same period, a display of wit and a playful disposition for wordplay, hyperbole, and paradox.

Published

2023-06-27

How to Cite

Rei, M. (2023). Corpi in gioco: la descriptio puellae nell’opera di Jerónimo Baía. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 15(1), 311–325. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/16267