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Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- Introduction
- 1: A long journey: The Song of Songs and the rise of medieval love lyric
- 2: The transition to modern poetry: Petrarch's Canzoniere
- 3: Still central: The Song of Songs in the Renaissance
- 4: Engaging with the Petrarchan code: The Song of Songs in Italian Renaissance poetry
- 5: Echoing and rewriting the Cantique des Cantiques: The Song of Songs in sixteenth-century French poetry
- 6: The English Spouse: The Song of Songs in sixteenth-century England
- 7: Blooming again: The Song of Songs in the Elizabethan love lyric
- 8: Awaking the turtle dove: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion
- Conclusion: The hidden archetype
- Index
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
About the author
After obtaining a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Perugia (2013), Camilla Caporicci was the recipient of a two-year Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, which she carried out at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (2015-2017). In 2018, she was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence for her project on the Song of Songs in Renaissance love lyric, which led to a research fellowship at the University of Padova (2018-2021), funded by the MSCA Seal of Excellence @UniPD funding programme. Since 2021, she has worked at the University of Perugia, where she is currently Associate Professor of English Literature.
She has published widely on early modern poetry and drama. She is the author of the Introduction and notes to the Bompiani edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets(2019), of the monograph
The Dark Lady: La rivoluzione shakespeariana nei Sonetti alla Dama Bruna (2013), and of the edited collections
The Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries): Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings(2024),The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature(with Armelle Sabatier, 2020), and
Sicut Lilium inter Spinas: Literature and Religion in the Renaissance(2018).
Summary
Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the “Holy of Holies” among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture.
