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... from the Petrarchan Olympus. That lily-livered Caesar had deserted the empire and scuttled back to his “barbarica regna” [barbaric kingdoms]. 56 No matter that this was the monarch who spent more time in Italy than any other of the late Middle Ages, the sponsor of scholarship who, in 1348, had...

...- what, by reducing it to an almost exclusive contest between the English and the Spanish. Behn’s play also returns us nostalgically to the Petrarchan ado- ration of the sovereign, which was more thoroughly critiqued in Killigrew’s original play.41 This nostalgia expresses itself as a yearning both...

... the flow or holding objects unaf- fected. And metaphor is already mixed here, when the commemorative or religious aspect is suggested by the way in which imagery of water is overlaid by that of fire, light in the darkness. It is as if the Petrarchan Renaissance is dormant in Comnena’s imagery...

... achievement that also makes unexpectedly compelling theatrical and dramatic sense. If the torch enters the play in part from love poetry’s Petrarchan platitudes, Romeo manages to wake up these sleeping beauties from the coma of their commodification, using the torch and the language it inspires...

... Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 95. New York: Iter Press, 2023. xiii, 213 pp., 15 color and 5 black-and-white illus. Paperback, ebook. [The first print edition of two extant manuscripts by Dorothy Calthorpe (1648–1693), including Calthorpe's will. The works range from Petrarchan love poetry...

... across the Disciplines 427 Sokolov, Danila. Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, ix, pp. Stadeler, Anja. Horazrezeption in der Renaissance...

..., 1964), 2:199–209; Angelo Mazzocco, “Petrarca, Poggio, and Biondo: Humanism’s Foremost Interpreters of Roman Ruins,” Francis Petrarch, Six Centuries Later, ed. Aldo Scaglione (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), 353–63. 20 On “the proclivity of Petrarchan texts...

...” and the Petrarchan Tradition. Approaches to Teach- 438  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016 ing World Literature, vol. 129. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014. xii, 300 pp. Paper $24.00. Linley, Keith. “Antony and Cleopatra” in Context: The Politics of Passion...

... the psychic mimesis of the spiritual life that Brereley is at pains to establish (rather less successfully). Goodwin even resorts to crude Petrarchanism: Alive I perish, and my self undo, Mine eyes self-willing, wise and witting too. Sick to my self, I run for my relief: More...

..., Giovanni Antonio dal Tolle. Croce describes Manas’s torture in cruel and mocking detail, while the fate of Ippolita and Lodovico is told as a romance. And he was not the only one. Virginia Cox has uncovered an astonishing outpouring of over a hundred Petrarchan poems written in the days and weeks...

... own wish to imitate it, Herbert deliberately installs the furnishings of Catholic meditation in a deeply Reformed temple. As Ilona Bell observes, “much as Sidney and Donne raided and exploded the Petrarchan conventions, Herbert used and doomed the familiar images, postures, and goals of Catholic...

... University Press, 1999. xvii, 249 pp.; 50 figs. $55.00. 12. Literary love and the romance Braden, Gordon. Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xv, 198 pp. $25.00. Burnley, David. Courtliness and Literature...

... in that he fully adopts the discourse of divine revelation but applies it to a female object of devotion, as was typical in the Petrarchan style of late Elizabethan sonne- teers. Whereas the male God of Christianity requires a bride to submit to his power and authority, here the male poet submits...

... (1261 1329). Christian motives, however, started to intensify in Salutati s writings as soon as the early 1370s. This process reached its peak in 1405 6, when Salutati defended Mori / Competing Humanisms 339 a Petrarchan notion of Christian humanism against the attacks leveled at the studia...

... ‘imitations’ burst over the literary horizon.” 82 As Abrams was well aware, no single year, author, or even group of authors alone transformed the fate of lyric. The rise of the ode was important, but so, of course, was the development of the Petrarchan sonnet, along with any number of other genres...

... Dictionary of National Biography, httpwww.oxforddnb.com ( July 10, 2009). 17 Ernest Hatch Wilkins, “The Coronation of Petrarch,” in Wilkins, The Making of the “Canzoniere” and Other Petrarchan Studies (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1 9 5 1 ) , 9   –   6 9 , a t 3 5...

... such poetry with a classical genre ( elegia ), as exemplified by Ovid's Heroides , and as dramatized in less somber tone by Ovid in Amores 3.1. For the larger tradition, of which Petrarchan lyric is a part, see James Simpson, “Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism,” Journal of Medieval...

... street scene and, simultaneously, mockery of the winged putto, a figure usually signifying desire, whether in classicizing or courtly schemes of decoration. As with the carnivalesque, a classical motif is now featured in an incongruous setting. The humor points to an anti-Petrarchan tenor, deny...

... wedding, Vincenzo had surprisingly chosen to march as Cupid’s Petrarchan slave in the Trionfo dell’amore carriage. Taking what would have been right- fully his son’s place, Vincenzo had made it clear that he thought of himself as a youthful prisoner of love, even as he was approaching senior amatory...