期刊名称：Parole Rubate : Rivista Internazionale di Studi sulla Citazione
电子版ISSN：2039-0114
出版年度：2020
卷号：11
期号：21
页码：9-20
语种：English
出版社：Parole Rubate
摘要：This essay focuses on the poetic image of the solitary sparrow in Giordano Bruno’s works. In his sonnet "Mio pàssar solitario, a quella parte" (1584), the philosopher turns the image of the half-human and half-animal winged soul into the image of a mere animal. In doing so, he concomitantly draws on and distances himself from Francesco Petrarca. Where in Petrarca’s work the image of the sparrow represents the solitude of those who love, as well as the distance of their beloved, in Bruno, instead, the sparrow symbolizes a new poetry that represents the divine or heroic love uniting the subject with immanent God, in the infinite universe.
