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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Toronto Italian Studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in€Humanist€Petrarchism; 1 Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World; 2 In Laura's Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchism in the Fifteenth Century; 3 Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century; Part II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism; 4 Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology in€the€Ciceronian Quarrel |
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5 Politicizing Gender: Bembo's Private and Public PetrarchismAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng's engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Influence
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Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. |
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Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Petrarchism.
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Humanism in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Humanism in literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Italian poetry.
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Petrarchism.
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Politics in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781487511791 |
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1487511795 |
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1487500777 |
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9781487500771 |
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9781487514716 |
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1487514719 |
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