Reconsidering the Renaissance

by State University of New York at Binghamton Center for Medieval and ear; Di Cesare, Mario A.

• ISBN13: 9780866981071
• ISBN10: 0866981071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Mrts

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Spas in the Italian Renaissance	p. 3
Renaissance Humanism and Its Significance	p. 29
Platonic Paganism in the Fifteenth Century	p. 45
Summoning Plotinus: Ficino, Smoke, and the Strangled Chickens	p. 63
Neapolitan Imitationes Propertianae: Ancient Sound in the Verses of Pontano and Chariteo	p. 89
Silencing Partenope: The Origins of Culture in Sannazaro's Arcadia	p. 109
Giorgione's Tempest: Astrology Is in the Eyes of the Beholder	p. 125
Giorgione's Portrait Inventions c. 1500: Transfixing the Viewer (With Observations on Some Florentine Antecedents)	p. 141
"Where'er you walk": My Lady's Beautiful Foot and Generative Footsteps: The Literary Context of Parmigianino's Madonna del Bel Piede	p. 177
From Catiline to Richard III: The Influence of Classical Historians on Polydore Vergil's Anglica historia	p. 191
From Sewers to Triumphal Arches: Dolet's Ideal of Civic Oratory	p. 215
Signs of the "Feminine": The Unshaping of Narrative in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Novellas 2, 4, and 10	p. 229
A Queen's Garden of Power: Catherine de' Medici and the Locus of Female Rule	p. 245
Imagination, Idleness and Self-Discovery: Montaigne's Early Voyage Inward	p. 257
Young Tasso's Reckoning with the Orlando furioso	p. 271
Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Change	p. 287
Print and the Tudor Poets	p. 301
Bottom, Burbage, and the Birth of Tragedy	p. 315
Shakespeare's Violation: "One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons"	p. 327
Tyranny and Effeminacy in Early Modern England	p. 339
Wicked Women in Macbeth: A Study of Power, Ideology, and the Production of Motherhood	p. 355
Isabella's Silence: The Consolidation of Power in Measure for Measure	p. 371
The Influence of Feminist Criticism / Theory on Shakespeare Studies, 1976-1986	p. 381
Shakespeare, Chapman, and the Julius Caesar Play in Renaissance Humanist Drama	p. 395
Donne's Dialogue of One: The Self and the Soul	p. 413
"Let your death be my Iliad": Classical Allusion and Latin in George Herbert's Memoriae Matris Sacrum	p. 429
Milton Hero: The Rhetorical Gesture of Monody	p. 447
"Our Names are Debts": Messiah's Account of Himself	p. 461
Milton, Bakhtin, and the Unit of Analysis	p. 475
Milton and the Possibilities of Theory	p. 489
Popular Traditions of God in the Renaissance	p. 501
Index	p. 521
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