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.
Subject:	Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374 -- Influence. Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374. Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism. Petrarchism. Humanism in literature. Politics in literature. Sex role in literature. Humanism in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Italian poetry. Petrarchism. Politics in literature. Sex role in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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."--

Table of 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 Petrarchism
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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