Writing Beloveds Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender Toronto Italian Studies 1st Edition by Aileen Feng ISBN 978-1487500771 1487500777

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ISBN 10:  1487500777

ISBN 13: 978-1487500771

Author: Aileen Feng

Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy.

By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Human-ist Petrarchism

1. Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World

2. In Laura’s Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchism in the Fifteenth Century

3. Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century

Part II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism

4. Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology in the Ciceronian Quarrel

5. Politicizing Gender: Bembo’s Private and Public Petrarchism

6. Afterword

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