Al. Ciorănescu: La Renaissance ou la revanche des morts
Al. Ciorănescu: La Renaissance ou la revanche des morts

Summary/Abstract: Al. Ciorănescu wrote his work on the Renaissance during a very long period of his studies and holidays in France using material he had read while preparing his thesis on L’Arioste en France, published in 1939, and while putting together the first part of the famous Bibliographie de la littérature française. Most likely unhappy with its mostly documentary character, he abandoned this work as a typewritten manuscript, with very few handwritten corrections, bound in two volumes with continuing page numbers. The fragment I have chosen contains the the first half of introduction to this work and part of chapter VI, devoted to the five „furors” that Ciorănescu identifies in Renaissance authors: the four generally recognized („la poétique, la mystique, la prophétique et l’amoureuse”), to which Pontus de Thyard adds a fifth, by „direct contact with divinity”.

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