Abigail Brundin

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. She was best known for her skill in constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before the Council of Trent, an involvement which had a profound effect on her literary production. This book will be essential reading for scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission in sixteenth-century Italy. It also provides an excellent background and contextualisation of Colonna's writings and her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly Petrachism and religious reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780754640493
• ISBN-10: 0754640493
• Artikelnr.: 47710781

Autorenporträt

Dr Abigail Brundin is a lecturer in the Italian Department at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Petrarchism, Neo-Platonism and Reform
Chapter 1a The Making of a Renaissance Publishing Phenomenon
Chapter 2 The Influence of Reform
Chapter 3 The Canzoniere Spirituale for Michelangelo Buonarroti
Chapter 4 The Gift Manuscript for Marguerite de Navarre
Chapter 5 Marian Prose Works
Chapter 6 Colonna's Readers: The Reception of Reformed Petrarchism
Chapter 7 The Fate of the Canzoniere Spirituale
conclusion Conclusion