Petrarchism at Work : : Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare / / William J. Kennedy.
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on References
- Introduction
- Part One. Petrarch and Italian Poetry
- 1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus
- 2. Making Petrarch Matter
- 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge
- 4. Incommensurate Gifts
- Part Two. Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision
- 1. Polished to Perfection
- 2. Ronsard Furieux
- 3. Passions and Privations
- 4. The Smirched Muse
- Part Three. Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics
- 1. To Possess Is Not to Own
- 2. Polish and Skill
- 3. Owning Up to Furor
- 4. Shakespeare as Professional
- Conclusion
- Works Cited as Primary Texts
- Index