The theme of jealousy in the Italian Renaissance lyric poetry is explored. The theme is first found in the poems of Boccacio and is further explored in poems by Lorenzo de' Medici and Sannazaro.
Although the Cinquecento love lyric relies mainly upon themes authorized by Petrarch's Return vulgarium fragmenta (hereafter referred to as RFP), a number of new topoi appear during the course of the century. (1) Many originate with non-lyric texts, and their gradual acceptance within the lyric ...