Periodic Reporting for period 3 - ArsNova (European Ars Nova: Multilingual Poetry and Polyphonic Song in the Late Middle Ages)

Dante Alighieri in Italy and, one century later, Eustache Deschamps in France conceived and defined poetry as music in itself, as a text with its own proportional harmony. Both authors specify that each poem is structured so that it can be set to music. At the end of the...