The court and its critics : anti-court sentiments in early modern Italy /
"Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of mo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Courtier
- A new manual for a new profession
- The legacy of anti-courtly sentiments
- The game and its space
- Unhappy birds born in some miserable valley
- Conspicuous exclusions
- The courtier-counsellor
- Mutable selves
- The evolution of manuals of conduct at court
- Anti-courtliness and the Book of the Courtier's epigones
- Golden chains
- 2. The Lady
- Women, anti-feminism, and anti-courtliness in the Italian Renaissance
- The courtier's anxious masculinity
- The court is a woman
- The court is a witch
- Love and courtliness
- Court ladies and courtly power
- Court ladies and courtly competition
- Training a successful court lady
- Courtly competition and the court virtuose
- The warrior who sang with court ladies
- The court is a whore
- 3. The Satirist
- A paradise for satirists
- Classical and medieval sources
- De curialium miseriis and the onset of "modern" anti-court sentiments
- Satire/satirist/sat
- Anti-court satire par excellence: Ludovico Ariosto's Satire
- Italian anti-court verse satire: Early examples and leitmotifs
- The court in satires
- Courtly Fortuna
- Courtly payoffs
- Courtly interactions
- Courtly language
- Courtly malaise
- The courtly self
- The courtier as Proteus
- Anti-court satires and Renaissance society
- The whore, the virgin, and the satyr
- Ambition, success, and failure
- From amusement to invective
- Aretino's new anti-courtliness
- The court of heaven, the printer's garden
- The fate of the satirist
- 4. The Shepherd
- Pastoral anti-courtliness
- The villa versus the court
- The depiction of villa life in early modern Italy
- Anti-courtliness and agricultural literature
- The pastoral community
- Courtliness and anti-courtliness in pastoral plays
- The anomaly of Tasso's pastoral writings
- The anti-court motif in later pastoral plays
- Anti-courtliness in Guarini's Pastor Fido
- The redeemed court
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index