Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender /

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Author / Creator:Feng, Aileen A, author.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Description:xiii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10956410
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ISBN:9781487500771
1487500777
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--

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Call Number: PQ4103 .F45 2017
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