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  1. Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe : Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture
    Contributor: Päll, Janika (Publisher); Volt, Ivo (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to... more

     

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to know and use Greek, because he is not, cannot and will not be a barbarian: barbaros ou pelomai, as Julius Caesar Scaliger claimed in his verses in 1600. Wreaths (stephanoi) have been the symbols of the cult of Muses from ancient times. After the love for Greek Muses had been revived by Renaissance Humanist poets and scholars, it has remained with us both in poetic activity and in scholarship. The Hellenostephanos volume presents a collection of papers by scholars who study Humanist Greek, aspiring towards another revival of Hellenism, and trying to avoid being barbarians. The volume includes papers by Christian Gastgeber, Gita Bērziņa, Janika Päll, Charalampos Minaoglou, Erkki Sironen, Kaspar Kolk, Tua Korhonen, Johanna Akujärvi, Bartosz Awianowicz, Jean-Marie Flamand, Walther Ludwig, Alessandra Lukinovich, Martin Steinrück, Tomas Veteikis, Grigory Vorobyev, Vlado Rezar, Pieta van Beek, and Antoine Haaker.

     
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  2. Poet of revolution
    the making of John Milton
    Author: McDowell, Nicholas
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest... more

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    A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost-but would first justify the killing of a king.Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas."Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece

     
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  3. Cartographic Humanism
    The Making of Early Modern Europe
    Author: Piechocki, Katharina N.
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.... more

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    What is "Europe," and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue

     
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    Subjects: Conrad Celtis; Europe; Geoffroy Tory; Girolamo Fracastoro; Luís de Camões; Maciej Miechowita; Renaissance humanism; cartography; comparative literature; continental thinking; epistemology; HISTORY / General; European literature; Europa <Motiv>; Kartografie; Literatur; Humanismus; Geschichtsschreibung
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  4. Poet of revolution
    the making of John Milton
    Author: McDowell, Nicholas
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

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    A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost-but would first justify the killing of a king.Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas."Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece

     
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  5. Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
    The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts
    Contributor: Baker, Patrick (HerausgeberIn); Kaiser, Ronny (HerausgeberIn); Priesterjahn, Maike (HerausgeberIn); Helmrath, Johannes (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016; ©2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

    The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic... more

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    The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

     
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    Contributor: Baker, Patrick (HerausgeberIn); Kaiser, Ronny (HerausgeberIn); Priesterjahn, Maike (HerausgeberIn); Helmrath, Johannes (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German; English
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    ISBN: 9783110473377; 9783110472394
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    Series: Transformationen der Antike ; Band 44
    De Gruyter eBook-Paket Altertumswissenschaften
    Subjects: Humanists; Kings and rulers; Kings and rulers in literature; Antike /Rezeption; Biographie; Epik; Geschichtsschreibung; Renaissance Humanismus; Antike /Rezeption.; Biographie.; Epik.; Geschichtsschreibung.; Renaissance Humanismus.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Other subjects: Renaissance humanism; biography; epic; historiography
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  6. Poet of Revolution
    The Making of John Milton
    Author: McDowell, Nicholas
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two University Scenes -- Part I: London and St Paul's School, 1608-25 -- Part II: Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9 -- Part... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two University Scenes -- Part I: London and St Paul's School, 1608-25 -- Part II: Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9 -- Part III: Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35 -- Part IV: Horton and Italy, 1635-9 -- Part V: London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42 -- Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost-but would first justify the killing of a king.Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas."Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece

     
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  7. The grace of the Italian Renaissance
    Author: Mac Carthy, Ita
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "This book explores grace as a complex idea and term that at once expresses and connects the most pressing ethical, social, and aesthetic debates of the Italian Renaissance. Grace surfaced time and again in the period's discussions of the individual... more

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    "This book explores grace as a complex idea and term that at once expresses and connects the most pressing ethical, social, and aesthetic debates of the Italian Renaissance. Grace surfaced time and again in the period's discussions of the individual pursuit of the good life and in the collective quest to determine the best means to a harmonious society. It rose to prominence in theological debates about the soul's salvation and in secular debates about how best to live at court. It was absolutely central to the thinking of Reformation figures such as Erasmus and Luther, and just as central to the Counter-Reformation response. It played a pivotal role in the humanist campaign to develop a shared literary language and it featured prominently in the efforts of writers and artists to express the full potential of mankind. Grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it was as hard to define as it was ever-present. The courtier and writer, Baldassare Castiglione, for example, described it as that 'certain air' which distinguished excellent courtiers and court ladies from their mediocre counterparts, while his artist friend, Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), saw it as that quality produced when one conceals the hard work and effort of art behind a veil of nonchalance and ease. This classically-inspired grace was used by many as a way of claiming distinction for themselves and of arguing for the pre-eminence of their chosen disciplines, but it drew criticism too from those who saw it as self-interested and superficial. Quarrels about the meaning and value of grace involved theologians, artists, writers and philosophers and intersected with the most famous debates of the time about language, society and the role of literature and the visual arts. As well as shedding light on what grace meant to those who invoked it, this book aims to trace the interdisciplinary transactions that the word made possible. Each chapter combines consideration of pivotal texts and images with interdisciplinary approaches, examining what grace meant to protagonists of the Italian Renaissance and exploring the correspondence, whether direct or indirect, between them. What emerges is a network of friendships, rivalries, agreements and disputes: a sketch of the interconnections that made the Italian Renaissance"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780691189796
    Subjects: Grace (Aesthetics); Grace (Theology); Graces, The; Language and culture; Grâce (Esthétique); Grâce (Théologie); Charites; Langage et culture - Italie - Histoire; HISTORY - Renaissance; Grace (Aesthetics); Grace (Theology); Graces, The; Intellectual life; Language and culture; History
    Other subjects: Aesthetics; Allegory; Ambivalence; Anathema; Art critic; Art criticism; Art history; Art; Astolfo; Baldassare Castiglione; Balzan; Bembo; Brotton; Buonarroti; Calculation; Canossa; Canti (Leopardi); Catherine of Siena; Christian theology; Clodagh; Close reading; Codrington Library; Council of Trent; Counter-Reformation; Courtesy; Courtier; De Oratore; Decorum; Divine grace; Drawing; Durham University; Emblem; Epigram; Flattery; Francesco del Cossa; Generosity; Giorgio Vasari; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; God's Grace; God; Grace and favour; Humility; Iconography; Institutio Oratoria; Irony; Italian Renaissance; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; La Fornarina; Lecture; Linguistics; Literature; Lodovico Dolce; Mannerism; Martin McLaughlin; Medici Chapel; Michelangelo; Moderata Fonte; Mythologies (book); Narrative; O'Sullivan; Orlando Furioso; Palazzo Schifanoia; Paragone; Parody; Petrarch; Philology; Philosopher; Pietro Bembo; Pliny the Elder; Poetry; Poliziano; Pope Julius II; Pope Leo X; Pope Paul III; Princeton University Press; Prose; Protogenes; Quintilian; Reginald Pole; Religious experience; Renaissance art; Renaissance humanism; Rhetoric; Romanticism; San Giorgio Maggiore; Sanctification; Satire; Sola fide; Spiritual gift; Spirituali; Spirituality; Sprezzatura; Suggestion; Terence; Thought; Treatise; Tullia d'Aragona; Vittoria Colonna; Work of art; Writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 246 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln), Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-235
  8. Literature for a Changing Planet
    Author: Puchner, Martin
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point... more

     

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change—and how we might change paths before it’s too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light—as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    Series: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture ; 1
    Subjects: Climatic changes in literature; Ecocriticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
    Other subjects: Adventure Story (play); Aeneid; Age of Oil; Antihero; Aratta; Author; Book; Caesar and Pompey; City-state; Climate change; Colonial empire; Colonialism; Colonization; Comparative literature; Confucius; Conquistador; Critical reading; Deep history; Disaster; Divine retribution; Ecocriticism; Ecology; Economic globalization; Edition (book); Education; Enkidu; Enlil; Environmental economics; Epic of Gilgamesh; Epic poetry; Fan fiction; Flood myth; G. (novel); Genre; Global warming; Globalization; Hard Choices; Headline; Henry David Thoreau; Hippie; How It Happened; Humbaba; Immigration law; Industrialisation; Jataka tales; Johannes Gutenberg; Latin alphabet; Latin literature; Literary criticism; Literary realism; Literature; Manifesto; Mechanization; Narrative; New Narrative; New media; Novel; Novelist; Occupy Wall Street; Odysseus; Odyssey; Of Education; Orality; Poetry; Polyphemus; Popol Vuh; Preface; Publication; Publishing; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Refugee; Renaissance humanism; Right of asylum; Save the Planet; Scholarly method; Scrutiny (journal); Scrutiny; Settlement movement; Settler colonialism; Social movement; Sociocultural evolution; Storytelling; The Communist Manifesto; The Realist; The Various; Think tank; To This Day; Trickster; Unintended consequences; Uruk; Utnapishtim; Wai Chee Dimock; Western literature; William H. McNeill (historian); World economy; World history; World literature; Writer; Writing system; Writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (160 Seiten), 6 b/w illus
  9. Poet of Revolution
    The Making of John Milton
    Author: McDowell, Nicholas
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two University Scenes -- Part I: London and St Paul's School, 1608-25 -- Part II: Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9 -- Part... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two University Scenes -- Part I: London and St Paul's School, 1608-25 -- Part II: Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625-9 -- Part III: Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35 -- Part IV: Horton and Italy, 1635-9 -- Part V: London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42 -- Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton's literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost-but would first justify the killing of a king.Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton's formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton's development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton's best-known works from this period, including the "Nativity Ode," "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," Comus, and "Lycidas."Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece

     
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  10. Writing Beloveds :
    Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender /
    Author: Feng, Aileen,
    Published: [2018]; ©2017
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto :

    "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.... more

     

    "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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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4875-1180-9; 1-4875-1471-9; 1-4875-1179-5
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    Series: Toronto Italian Studies
    Subjects: Italian poetry
    Other subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, (1304-1374); Petrarca, Francesco, (1304-1374.); Literature; Bembo; Cicero; Medusa; Petrarch; Petrarchan sonnet; Philosophy of love; Renaissance humanism
    Scope: 1 online resource (266 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world -- In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century -- Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century -- Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel -- Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.
  11. Writing Beloveds :
    Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender /
    Author: Feng, Aileen,
    Published: [2018]; ©2017
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto :

    "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.... more

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    "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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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4875-1180-9; 1-4875-1471-9; 1-4875-1179-5
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    Series: Toronto Italian Studies
    Subjects: Italian poetry
    Other subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, (1304-1374); Petrarca, Francesco, (1304-1374.); Literature; Bembo; Cicero; Medusa; Petrarch; Petrarchan sonnet; Philosophy of love; Renaissance humanism
    Scope: 1 online resource (266 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world -- In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century -- Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century -- Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel -- Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.
  12. Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
    The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts
    Contributor: Baker, Patrick (HerausgeberIn); Kaiser, Ronny (HerausgeberIn); Priesterjahn, Maike (HerausgeberIn); Helmrath, Johannes (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016; ©2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

    The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic... more

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    The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

     
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    Contributor: Baker, Patrick (HerausgeberIn); Kaiser, Ronny (HerausgeberIn); Priesterjahn, Maike (HerausgeberIn); Helmrath, Johannes (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German; English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110473377; 9783110472394
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    RVK Categories: NB 5550
    Series: Transformationen der Antike ; Band 44
    De Gruyter eBook-Paket Altertumswissenschaften
    Subjects: Humanists; Kings and rulers; Kings and rulers in literature; Antike /Rezeption; Biographie; Epik; Geschichtsschreibung; Renaissance Humanismus; Antike /Rezeption.; Biographie.; Epik.; Geschichtsschreibung.; Renaissance Humanismus.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Other subjects: Renaissance humanism; biography; epic; historiography
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 489 Seiten)
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    Beiträge teilweise deutsch, teilweise englisch