Diogo Bernardes's brandura
Readers of Diogo Bernardes’s (c.1530-c. 1595) poetry have long praised the brandura (gentleness) of his work. But what brandura meant and how positively this quality was viewed shifted depending on the context of discussion. Brandura was associated with the middle style, mastery of elocutio, and, by...
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Duke University Press
2017
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