Das Deutsche Madrigal, Geschichte seiner Entwickelung bis in die mitte des XVIII. Jarhunderts - Vossler, Karl 1872-1949 (Weimar Verlag von Emil Felber, 1898)
Vossler was a German literary historian, Dante researcher and one of the most important Romanists of the first half of the twentieth century.
Italian poetry was the focus of his work for many years. His adaptations and translations of Dante's Divine Comedy are still among the standard works today. Vossler later also worked on French literature and then made Spanish poetry the focus of his research. Even after his retirement, the importance of his work was recognized by numerous national and international awards. Vossler's academic work helped to liberate romanistic studies from the narrow perspective of positivism and to return it to the Humboldtian ideal of education with a new philosophical and aesthetic approach. His name is associated with the concept of idealistic new philology.
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Madrigal; Literature; Music history; Germany