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Author Kennedy, William J. (William John), 1942- author.

Title Petrarchism at work : contextual economies in the age of Shakespeare / William J. Kennedy
Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016
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Contents The marketplace of Mercury -- Petrarch and Italian poetry -- Petrarch as homo economicus -- Making Petrarch matter: the parts and labor of textual revision -- Jeweler's daughter sings for doge: Gaspara Stampa's entrepreneurial poetics -- Incommensurate gifts: Michelangelo and the economy of revision -- Pierre de Ronsard and Pléiade aesthetics -- Polished to perfection: Ronsard's investment in Les Amours -- Ronsard Furieux: interest in Ariosto -- Passions and privations: writing sonnets like a pro in Les Amours de Marie -- The smirched muse: commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène -- Shakespeare's sonnets and the economy of Petrarchan aesthetics -- To possess is not to own: the cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man -- Polish and skill: Will's interest and self-interest in sonnets 61-99 -- Owning up to furor: the poets' war and its aftermath in sonnets 100-126 -- Shakespeare as professional: the economy of revision in sonnets 1-60 -- Mercurial economies
Summary "This book will focus on competing claims about quicksilver eloquence, vatic inspiration, and hermeneutic skills among Renaissance poets, and upon choices that they made for their writing, their literary careers, and the professionalization of their craft. Its ground is the intersection of aesthetics and economics in European Renaissance poetry, and its principal actors are Francesco Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pierre de Ronsard and William Shakespeare"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 5, 2016)
Subject Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Influence
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Influence
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 fast
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Economic aspects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
European literature -- Renaissance
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501703812
1501703811