Authorizing Petrarch / William J. Kennedy
1994, 1st edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425874
ISBN: 0801429749
Physical description; xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; English and Italian. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index. Contents; 1. Petrarchan Authorities and the Authorization of Petrarch -- 2. Authorizing Commentaries. Authorizing Literacy and a Readership. Authorizing Monarchism: Antonio da Tempo, Francesco Filelfo, and Hieronimo Squarzafico. Authorizing Narrative: Alessandro Vellutello. Authorizing Rhetoric: Sylvano da Venafro, Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo, and Bernardino Daniello. Authorizing Reform: Fausto da Longiano, Antonio Brucioli, and Ludovico Castelvetro -- 3. Authorizing Petrarch in Italy. Authorizing Petrarch's Language: Pietro Bembo's Prose della volgar lingua. The Stiffening of Medusa: Petrification and Petrarchification in Pietro Bembo's Rime -- 4. Authorizing Gender Revisions. Vittoria Colonna and the Rules of Gender. Veronica Gambara and the Gender of Rule. Pernette du Guillet and the Ladies of Lyon. Petrarchan Transfers in Louise Labels Evvres. Petrarchan Affiliations in Louise Labels Evvres -- 5. Authorizing Petrarch in England: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti. Secular and Sacral Homologies: Edmund Spenser's Three Elizabeths. At the Court of the Faerie Queene: Instrumentalities of Petrarchism. Where Grace Abounds: Correcting Petrarch. Twaine Shal Be One: Marriage and Provisional Fulfillment. Redeeming Petrarchism. Subjects; Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374 Criticism and interpretation History.
Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374 Rime. Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374. Petrarca, Francesco. Petrarchism. Italian poetry.
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