Title Petrarch and the making of gender in Renaissance Italy / Shannon McHugh

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) illustrations Series Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 18 Gendering the late medieval and early modern world. Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Literary and Sociohistorical Context -- 1. The People's Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity -- 2. Context: Men and Women Writers in Late-Renaissance Italy -- Part 2. Making Gender Through Petrarchism -- 3. Ventriloquized Lyric -- 4. Correspondence Lyric -- 5. Religious Lyric -- 6. Conjugal Lyric -- Afterword -- Volume Bibliography -- Index -- List of Illustrations Figure 0.1: Vincenzo Cartari, Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi con figure nuovamente stampate. Venice: Ziletti, 1571. Illustration of "bearded Venus" (Venere con la barba), 552. RB 375693, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. -- Figure 0.2: Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo de' Medici in Armor, c. 1545. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. -- Figure 0.3: Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus, c. 1537-1539. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Mrs. John Wintersteen, 1950, 1950-86-1 Figures 1.1a and 1.1b: Petrarch's Virgilian Codex, 1338. Petrarch's autograph note on Laura, flyleaf, and Simone Martini, Allegoria virgiliana, illuminated frontispiece. A79 inf., Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. © Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadori P -- Figure 1.2: Unattributed copy of Petrarch's Note on Laura, composed in Florence in 1468, fol. 1r. General Manuscripts 109, Box 285, Folder 5127a. The Spinelli Archive, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT Figure 1.3: Manuscript copy of pseudo-da Tempo's Life of Petrarch: detail, transcription of Petrarch's letter to Giacomo Colonna about Laura, fifteenth century, fol. 5r. Barb. Lat. 3943, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City. -- Figures 1.4a and 1.4b: Untitled edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi. Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, 1473. Transcription of Petrarch's Note on Laura and letter to Giacomo Colonna, fols. 174r-v (of unnumbered signatures). Special Collections, folio In Figure 1.5: Francesco Petrarca, Le volgari opera. Venice: Giovanni Antonio da Sabbio, 1525. Map of Vaucluse in Alessandro Vellutello's edition, fols. AA4v-AA5r. Photo: Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2015. -- Figure 1.6: Francesco Petrarca, Il Petrarca. Venice: Gabriele Giolito, 1545. Woodcut depicting Petrarch and Laura in Lodovico Domenichi's edition, fol. A3r. Special Collections, Case Y 712.P4054, The Newberry, Chicago Summary This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism's capacity for subjective expression and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry's work in the world. These poets' works challenge the traditional boundaries drawn around lyric's utility. They show us how poems could be sites of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of shaping it Analysis History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Early Modern Studies EARLY MOD Gender and Sexuality Studies GEND & SEXU Literary Theory, Criticism, and History LIT Petrarchism, lyric, gender, women writers, masculinity Notes "Amsterdam University Press" Introduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People's Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric Afterword Vendor-supplied metadata Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 1st, 2023) Subject Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 fast Subject Sex role in literature. Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- History and criticism Literary studies: classical, early and medieval. Literary studies: poetry and poets. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. Italian poetry Sex role in literature Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval. Literary studies: poetry and poets. Social and cultural history. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9048555175 9789048555178

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