... on the role of literary networks in shaping the theory and practice of Renaissance imitation and the construction of poetic identity. b.mottram@uea.ac.uk Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Maffeo Vegio writing of light verse humanist poetics Renaissance reception of Virgil...

... 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...

..., it would be difficult, if not impossible, to understand contemporary American poetic culture without discussing its relationship to the university, including the teaching positions and professorships held by many of the most prominent poets. In seventeenth-century England, the church provided the most...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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 and cre- ate dramatic impersonations of historical or mythological subjects replete with tropes, while being self- conscious...

...].3 Confined within neither marriage nor 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 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... as misrepresentation in order to explore how women s notoriety was negotiated in late sixteenth- century poetic culture. Her article considers the phenomenon of the false attribution of poems to contemporary women as prosopopeia (the adoption of rhetorical personae, an exercise endemic in humanist schoolrooms). Using...