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Author Feng, Aileen, Astorga

Title Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Toronto Italian Studies
Toronto Italian studies.
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
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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Subject Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Influence
SUBJECT Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. fast (OCoLC)fst00041151
Subject Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
Petrarchism.
Humanism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Humanism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Italian poetry.
Petrarchism.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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