... Vegio writing of light verse humanist poetics Renaissance reception of Virgil poetic identity In 1438, following years of personal, political, and ecclesiastical tribulations, Pope Eugenius IV finally succeeded in convening the Council of Florence. 1 Accompanying him to the city as part...

... history,” thereby integrating the writer with the state. Like the humanists who visited their salon, Madeleine and Cather- ine Des Roches had entered the field of political discourse through their poetic writing of exemplary history. Yet despite the similarity of their humanist practices...

..., Spring 2008 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-023  © 2008 by Duke University Press modernists understand the medieval “history” offered by Spenser in his poetical works as a kind of fanciful fiction that has no relationship to the history of sixteenth-century humanists and antiquarians. Scholars...

...Kristján Hannesson Scholars have related Petrarch's reflections on fragments and ancient ruins to his poetics and to his evolving sense of self. He expresses fears that his texts might become fragmented in the hands of posterity, and he would rather burn them than show them to the public...

... of Pygmalion—the artist who brings an ivory statue to life—evokes the wax simulacrum and thereby makes explicit the shared terrain of philosophy, poetics, and rhetoric around questions of knowledge and representation. Consequently, this essay uses Pygmalion as a hinge that links these disparate periods...

..., is as much about style as it is about substance,” a formulation that suggests how poetics might participate in this movement. See “ ‘Avant-Garde Conformity’ in the 1590s,” in The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume 1: Reformation and Identity, c. 1520–1662 , ed. Anthony Milton (Oxford: Oxford University...

.... For Luther, education could not convey genuine righteousness; it could provide nothing more than, on the one hand, a tool to secure external conformity, or, on the other, an external occasion for God’s transformative work. Nevertheless, in the early modern period humanist education won the day...

... between fabula and historia ceased to provide grounds for legitimation. On the contrary, the respective modes of poetic and historiographic discourse tended to inter- twine.”7 While Dee and Spenser claim to legitimate their work through the distinction of fabula and historia, they use the lack...

...Dan Breen This essay attempts to contribute to the wide-ranging discussion of periodization in medieval and early modern studies through a new reading of Skelton's Garland of Laurel . The essay argues that Skelton recreates the laurel as a symbol of continuing poetic and historical service rather...

... of The Tempest have been reoriented toward Caliban and the victimizing poetics of imperialism, yield- ing exciting results in performance and criticism alike.6 As a contemporary dramatic script from the New World, “Le Theatre de Neptune” is uniquely situated to open up historical and comparative...

... pp. $29.95. [Includes two biographies by the Milanese humanist, the Vita Philippi Mariae Tertii Ligurum Ducis and Anotatio rerum gestarum in vita illustris- simi Francisci Sfortiae Quarti Mediolanensis Ducis. Latin texts with facing- page English translations.] DeVries, Kelly, and Michael Livingston...

... through language and the idea of authorial identity as fiction.14 Lynn Enterline has expanded on the ways in which prosopopoeia was fundamental to the train- ing of orators in the humanist schoolroom, where students were directed in rhetorical exercises to place themselves in imaginative situations...

... a convent, Corinna is released from serving anyone but God, and like the soul that she dedicates to him, she is in the world, but not of it. But her sonnet intriguingly ends by praising the humanistic goals of “fama e gloria” that await her not only in life, but in death: Così negli anni...

..., in the “protestant charge that Pur- gatory was a poetic fable,” that we can see an “anticipatory glimmer of the light that Vico was to shine . . . at the Catholic doctrine of the middle place of souls” (49). In a disarming disclaimer, Greenblatt admits that such an account of poetics is inadequate (“they had...

..., including Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian. Yet, there is more to paint- ing than imagination and mimesis; a set of tools and a body of technical knowledge sets painting apart from both poetics and rhetoric. Boccaccio and Sacchetti were alert to these differences, although...

... the novel. 14 It has become increasingly clear that literature and diplomacy form a natural diptych of sorts in early modern discourse; where poetics meets politics in Wyatt s works, representation meets practice in the links between literature and diplomacy. Humanist thought bridges one to the other...

..., particularly Robert Henryson’s “Sum Practysis of Medecyne,” made jargon a poetic opportunity. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English...

... in print. Specifically, Whitney restructures humanist notions of reading-as-gathering around “huswifely” textile work by drawing on the rich semantic context of the word slip . Situating Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay in the material culture from which she drew her metaphors illuminates its relationship...

... move. By elaborating on this space, Gratiano also tacitly brings up a different kind of nothing: the space between the soul and the body. The distinction between these types of spaces is made succinctly by Plotinus, the Neoplatonist cele­ brated by humanists in the early modern era, in book four...

... Heywood sides with a small-producing plowman and a humanist philosopher against a knight and a merchant. Late Tudor “aristo-capitalism” integrated an imperial and capitalist aristoc- racy with its non-noble functionaries and the laborers they aimed to exploit more systematically, leaving little...