Kennedy chronicles the process of Petrarch's canonization from the interpretive commentaries found in rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Rime sparse through the imitative poetry of early modern writers in Italy, France, and England...
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Kennedy chronicles the process of Petrarch's canonization from the interpretive commentaries found in rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Rime sparse through the imitative poetry of early modern writers in Italy, France, and England...
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xiii, 301 pp. Contents: Petrarchan Authorities & the Authorization of Petrarch; Authorizing Commentaries: Authorizing Literacy & a Readership; Authorizing Monarchism: Antonio da Tempo, Francesco Filelfo, & Hieronimo Squarzafico; Authorizing Narrative: Alessandro Vellutello; Authorizing Rhetoric: Sylvano da Venafro, Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo, & Bernardino Daniello; Authorizing Reform: Fausto da Longiano, Antonio Brucioli, & Ludovico Castelvetro; Authorizing Petrarch in Italy: Authorizing Petrarch's Language: Pietro Bembo's 'Prose della volgar lingua'; The Stiffening of Medusa: Petrification & Petrarchification in Pietro Bembo's 'Rime'; Authorizing Gender Revisions: Vittoria Colonna & the Rules of Gender; Veronica Gambara & the Gender of Rule; Pernette du Guillet & the Ladies of Lyon; Petrarchan Transfers in Louis Labe's 'Evvres'; Authorizing Petrarch in England: Edmund Spencer's Three Amoretti: Secular & Sacred Homologies: Edmund Spencer's Three Elizabeths; At the Court of the Faerie Queen: Instrumentalities of Petrarchism; Where Grace Abounds: Correcting Petrarch; Twaine Shal Be One: Marriage & Provisional Fulfillment; Redeeming Petrarchism; Conclusion; Appendix.
