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This study considers the development of the modern construction of identity as it is enunciated in a specific literary genre. The sonnet, a literary form developed as a vernacular poetry yet meant for private enjoyment, synthesizes cultural and personal identification in a way t…

The present thesis examines spiritual madrigals based on Italian poetic paraphrases of Latin sacred texts printed in the Italian States between the late 1530s and 1630. 'Spiritual madrigal' is the term used to label madrigals setting texts with explicit religious or moral conten…