“Una donzella cantava de amore”. Boiardo lirico nella musica vocale tra Rinascimento e Novecento

Abstract

This essay explores the musical reception of Matteo Maria Boiardo’s lyric poetry with a focus on the early decades of the 20th century. Special attention is given to the modernist frame within which Boiardo’s poetry was set to music by composers as diverse as Zoltán Kodály, Giorgio Federico Ghedini e Bruno Bettinelli. The essay aims to reconsider the musical afterlife of Boiardo as relevant to the ways in which the Italian lyric tradition of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was given a new ‘lyric’ voice, capable of challenging stylistic expectations in a period of vibrant experimentation across music and poetry.

Keywords

• boiardo
• music