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As if she were the most compassionate woman, in her work I summoned the light, the darkness, and my little time; for what else was I supposed to have time for?
“I decided,” says Dante in New Life about Beatrice, his lifelong love, “not to speak of the blessed woman until I can tell something worthy of her,” and “to say of her what has not been said about anyone.” Two years later he will write about another woman, unknown, the Rime Petrose.
In the poems of RIME PETROSE even poetry is defeated as the torment of the lover surpasses the limits of what can be said. The Rime Petrose indelibly marked Dante primarily with the harshness of the language they unleashed. These poems are not merely artistic “digressions,” but the necessary prologue to the Comedy (La [Divina] Commedia), which likely would never have been written in the sweet tones of dolce stil novo.
“Realism,” observes Salvatore Quasimodo, “the magnificent poetry of Dante, is born in Rime Petrose: the emotions here are not a matter of reduplication; they are born from the body, which is truly struck by the air, the rain, the hail.” Likely the Rime Petrose were composed in 1296 or 1297 – that is, after New Life (La Vita Nuova), but before the Convivio.
Charles S. Singleton referred to the idealizations of the troubadours as “love without the possibility of peace.” In Rime Petrose we indeed see a love without the possibility of peace – yet, here, the rules of courtly poetry “break” as the unreturned desire gradually transforms into ecstatic violence.
The “lo son venuto,” the first poem, introduces the central motif of Rime Petrose: a girl like stone – cold towards the poet's passion and at the same time rare as a precious gem. In the sestina, Dante recognized the ideal vehicle for the poetry of unreturned love.
The meaning of each of the six words with which the lines conclude deepens from stanza to stanza, reflecting the obsessive circularity of sexual desire – and hypnotizing both the audience and the poet. The word ombra, for example, sometimes means “shadow” and sometimes “ghost,” but always symbolizes the darkness of death. The petra, which was initially used as a personification of the woman, ultimately indicates the grave.
HAROLD BLOOM
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- Author
- Dante Alighieri
- Publisher
- Agra
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- Duplicate Version (Greek-Italian)
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 88
- Release Date
- 1/2014
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603259824
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- Classic Poets
- Yes
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