The peregrine muse : studies in comparative Renaissance literature / by Robert J. Clements.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clements, Robert J. (Robert John), 1912-1993, author.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 82.

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 82.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

Summary:

Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books -- and the identity of literary and artistic theory in the Renaissance.

Contents:

Cover

THE PEREGRINE MUSE

Title

Copyright

Dedication

FOREWORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Identity of Literary and Artistic Theory in the Renaissance

II. Rilke, Michelangelo, and the Geschichten vom lieben Gott

III. Desportes and Petrarch

IV. Literary Theory and Criticism in Scaliger's Poemata

V. López Pinciano's Philosophía Antigua Poética and the Spanish Contribution to Renaissance Literary Theory

VI. The Authenticity of De Hollanda's Diálogos em Roma

VII. Marguerite de Navarre and Dante

VIII. Ronsard, Michelangelo, and three "Inedita" from Bury

IX. "The Philosophie of Cavaliers

X. Burton, the Scaligers, and the Anatomy of Melancholy, III, i, 2

XI. The Chess Ballet: A Faraway Vision of Pantagruel and Polifilo

XII. Baroque and Tragedy

XIII. La troisième Lyonnaise: Georgette de Montenay

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ISBN:

1-4696-4584-X

OCLC:

1050779588