The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian...
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The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Ugolini, Paola

The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

$268.40

The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

$268.40
Author: Paola Ugolini
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Paola Ugolini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 03/18/2020
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781487505448

About the Author
Ugolini, Paola: - Paola Ugolini is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.

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