The Court and Its Critics : Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ugolini, Paola, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Satire, Italian.
Manners and customs.
Courts and courtiers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Satire italienne > Histoire et critique.
Satire, Italian > History and criticism.
Italy.
Italie > Moeurs et coutumes > 16e siecle.
Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Italy > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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

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