Holofernes' Mantuan
Italian Humanism in Early Modern England
(Sprache: Englisch)
Mantuan was the most widely read quattrocento writer in England. By considering the appropriation and uses made of his poetry, this book shows why. It breaks new ground by examining how educators like Erasmus mediated versions of his poems that were taught...
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Mantuan was the most widely read quattrocento writer in England. By considering the appropriation and uses made of his poetry, this book shows why. It breaks new ground by examining how educators like Erasmus mediated versions of his poems that were taught in the schools. Professor Piepho uses commentaries and annotated copies to illuminate how habits of reading taught by schoolmasters affected writers such as Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy . Finally, he discusses how Mantuan's eclogues, appropriated by Protestant polemicists, became an allusive background by which Edmund Spenser and other writers examined abuses of the English church. This book is essential reading for all future discussions of the role of humanism in early modern European culture.
Autoren-Porträt von Lee Piepho
The Author: Lee Piepho is the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of English Literature at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a senior fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, he is the author of numerous articles on Renaissance culture in professional journals and the translator and editor of Adulescentia: The Eclogues of Mantuan.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lee Piepho
- 2001, Neuausg., 173 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820452769
- ISBN-13: 9780820452760
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"A pioneering and learned study that reveals the key role of Mantuan in the diffusion of Italian humanism in Renaissance England, and the way in which his poetry and religious beliefs shaped and modified English responses to pastoral up to the eighteenth century, particularly by writers such as Edmund Spenser and John Milton. Lee Piepho has made many discoveries, and this study of the reception of Mantuan is required reading for anyone interested in English humanism and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature." (Jim Binns, University of York)
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