Desavenças: poesia, poder e melancolia nas obras do doutor Francisco de Sá de Miranda / Disagreement: poetry, power and melancholy in the doctors works Francisco de Sá de Miranda

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2007

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This thesis aims at establishing historical links between two aspects of the trajectory of the sixteenth-century portuguese poet Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1486?-1558) that appear to be contradictory: innovation in poetry and retreat to the country. On the one hand, he was the man of letters and courtier that introduced in Portuguese poetry Italian poetical forms such as the sonnet and the hendecasyllable verse. On the other hand, he was the landlord who decided to retreat from the court of the King D. João III and live in his distant manor in northern Portugal. From his country retreat, Sá de Miranda devoted himself to the genre of the verse epistle, spreading in his "letters" his criticism of the directions taken by the Kingdom of Portugal in mid-Sixteenth Century, especially concerning its expansion to India, the commerce of spices and the navigations. While the authors body moved away, his literate image could take the front scene: Sá de Miranda retreated from the court, not from the culture of letters. Although he acknowledged his own bitterness in respect to the facts of human life, he did not adopt the Neoplatonic exhalted view of melancholy as the typical condition of the men of genius. For him, as a supporter of the Stoic attitude disseminated in Renaissance, the melancholy mans disagreement with himself was analogous with the disorder of a political body taken over by corruption and greed. Thus, his way of resisting his own melancholy ended up revealing the modern political orders own melancholy, demanding resistance as well.

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sá de miranda portugal cultura letrada melancholy melancolia estado portugal culture of letters state sá de miranda

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