The Routledge research companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance literature and culture / edited by Michele Marrapodi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marrapodi, Michele, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Italian influences.

English literature.

Italian literature--English influences.

Italian literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Italian literature--16th century--History and criticism.

Intertextuality.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 528 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"The aim of this Companion volume is to provide scholars and advanced graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research work on Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies. Written by a team of international scholars and experts in the field, the chapters are grouped into two large areas of influence and intertextuality, corresponding to the dual way in which early modern England looked upon the Italian world from the English perspective: Part One: 'Italian Literature and Culture', Part Two: 'Appropriations and Ideologies'. In the first section, prominent Italian authors, artists, and thinkers are examined as a direct source of inspiration, imitation, and divergence. The variegated English response to the cultural, ideological, and political implications of pervasive Italian intertextuality, in interrelated aspects of artistic and generic production, is dealt with in the second section. Constructed on the basis of a largely interdisciplinary approach, the volume offers an in-depth and wide-ranging treatment of the multifaceted ways in which Italy's material world and its iconologies are represented, appropriated, and exploited in the literary and cultural domain of early modern England. For this reason, contributors were asked to write essays that not only reflect current thinking but also point to directions for future research and scholarship, while a purposefully conceived bibliography of primary and secondary sources and a detailed index round off the volume"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dante's Vita Nuova and Petrarchismo: a critical review of contemporary scholarship / Marco Andreacchio

Boccaccio's Decameron and theatricality / Janet Levarie Smarr

Commedia erudita: birth and transfiguration / Louise George Clubb

Machiavelli's comedies of "virtù" / Duncan Salkeld

Senecan tragedy in the English Renaissance / Mario Domenichelli

Masters of civility: Castiglione's Courtier, Della Casa's Galateo, and Guazzo's civil conversation in early modern England / Cathy L. Shrank

"Did Ariosto write it?": the Orlando Furioso in Elizabethan poetry / Selene Scarsi

The Italian comici, and commedia dell'arte / Richard Andrews

Giordano Bruno in England: from London to Rome / Gilberto Sacerdoti

Italian pastoral tragicomedy and English early modern drama / Robert Henke

The pastoral poem and novel / Jane Tylus

"Oh that we had such an English Tasso": Tasso in English poetry and drama to 1700 / Jason Lawrence

Petrarch in England / John Roe

The novella and the art of story-telling in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance / Melissa Walter

Shakespeare and the arts of painting and music / Duncan Salkeld

"Absolute Castilio" the reputation and reception of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier in Elizabethan England / Mary Partridge

Machiavelli's principe and the new ethics of power / Alessandra Petrina

"Boying their greatness": transnational effects of the Italian divas on the Shakespearean stage / Rosalind Kerr

Commedia dell'arte in early modern English drama / Eric Nicholson

The scholarship of Italian and English Renaissance festivals / J. R. Mulryne

John Florio and the circulation of Italian culture / Michael Wyatt

Heretics, translators, intelligencers: Italian reformers in Tudor England / Diego Pirillo

Italy, printing industry, and the cultural market in Elizabethan england / Mario Domenichelli

Anglo-Venetian networks: Paolo Sarpi in early modern England / Chiara Petr

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-500) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Routledge research companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance literature and culture

ISBN:

9781472410733

1472410734

OCLC:

1060179500

Publisher Number:

99980492549