I TROVATORI NELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
THE TROUBADOURS IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The Troubadours in Contemporary Italian Literature. This article analyzes the reception of troubadour lyric poetry in the 20th century and in contemporary Italian culture. It offers an interpretive model based on two archetypal functions: the Jaufré function and the Arnaut function. The first, inspired by Jaufré Rudel, represents the persistence of a thematic and mythical legacy centered on amor de lonh and on a lyrical-expressive sensibility. The second, derived from Arnaut Daniel, embodies the continuity of a technical-formal experimentalism, valuing poetry as technē and artifice. The article traces the evolution of these two trajectories through literature, from the Romantic and early 20th century reception to the Modernist rediscovery, up to the neo-avant-gardes and contemporary transmedia forms such as singer-songwriting and performance theatre, thus demonstrating the enduring relevance of the troubadour model.

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