The Court and Its Critics : Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy Hardback
by Paola Ugolini
Part of the Toronto Italian Studies series
Hardback
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Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society.
The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest. The Court and Its Critics analyses anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century.
The book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments.
The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power.
The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining of anti-courtliness and anti-feminism.
The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 12 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781487505448
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 12 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781487505448
