Italy in Crisis: 1494

by J.E. Everson

Overview

"Italy in Crisis: 1494 is a collection of essays which were originally presented at a conference organized at the Institute of Romance Studies in London. They cover the most Important aspects of the history, literature, astrology and thought of the 1490s, when major figures such as Lorenzo de' Medici, Angelo Poliziano, Luigi Pulci, and Boiardo, the author of the Orlando Innamorato, disappeared from the Italian scene. The contributors are Alison Brown, Remo Catani, Peter Brand, Marco Dorigatti, Mark Davie, Martin McLaughlin, Letizla Panlzza and Denis Reldy."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351198974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	510 KB

About the Author

Diego Zancani Reader in Italian and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Jane Everson is Senior Lecturer in Italian, Royal Holloway University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 The Revolution of 1494 in Florence and its Aftermath: A Reassessment 2 Astrological Polemics in the Crisis of the 1490s 3 Luigi Pulci and the Generation of ’94 4 Boiardo s Timone 5 Rugiero and the Dynastic Theme from Boiardo to Ariosto 6 Poliziano s Stanze per la giostra: Postmodern Poetics in a Proto-Renaissance Poem 7 Pico della Mirándolas 1485 Parody of Scholastic ‘Barbarians’ 8 Boiardo, Panizzi and ‘Politics’