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Dissertation
Paradisi Pericolosi: I Giardini di Armida Come Spazi Morali e teatrali Nella Gerusalemme liberata di Tasso e Nell’ Armide di Lully
2025
Overview
This thesis aims to examine the depiction, influences on, and impact of the literary garden space on an audience’s lasting reception of the women who inhabit it. The argument takes up the story of Armida and her gardens in Torquato Tasso's \"Gerusalemme liberata\" as a particularly fitting case study, given the work's position as a pinnacle of Renaissance epic. Of the list of epic women like her (among them Circe, Calypso, and Alcina), Armida is the most consistently identified with botanical spaces. As such, Tasso describes Armida’s various gardens extensively, providing us with a great deal of material to analyze in light of the real-life Medieval and Renaissance garden culture in which the poet and his readers operated. Further, the immediate popularity of Tasso’s masterwork and its dispersion through Europe has provided us with a number of artistic (painting, musical, and theatrical) examples of how audiences and readers actually perceived and interpreted Armida and her gardens. Considering this, the thesis moves on to analyze Jean-Baptiste Lully's 1686 opera, \"Armide\", as an example of how Tasso's Armida was received and reinterpreted over time, taking particular interest in Lully's careful use of tonality to depict the enchanted environments Armide creates and inhabits— or fails to inhabit.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
9798273313699
