Dante's Parere
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/11446Keywords:
Middle Ages, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Parere, Historical semanticsAbstract
In old Italian the verb parere oscillates between the meanings of ‘to appear clearly’ and ‘to seem’. Dante, in the sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare and in general in the Vita nova, would instead eliminate, according to modern criticism, any ambiguity: starting from Gianfranco Contini it is in fact believed that the apparition of Beatrice is represented in the pamphlet as a universal phenomenon and not as a subjective perception. In this contribution I try to reconstruct the prehistory of Dante’s parere.
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