Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo

by Martin L. McLaughlin

Overview

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on literary imitation, the key critical concept of the period. Covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and the vernacular, McLaughlin charts the development of the concept from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, offering fresh insights into major works of Italian literature from Dante to Bembo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198158998
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/23/1996
Series:	Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	8.74(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Christ Church, Oxford

Table of Contents

	Introduction	I
Part 1	The Trecento	9
1.	Dante	11
2.	Petrarch	22
3.	Boccaccio	49
4.	Coluccio Salutati	67
Part 2	The Early Quattrocento	79
5.	Leonardo Bruni	81
6.	Humanist Educators	98
7.	The Dispute between Poggio and Valla	126
Part 3	Vernacular Humanism	147
8.	Leon Battista Alberti	149
9.	Cristoforo Landino	167
Part 4	The Major Disputes Around 1500	185
10.	The Dispute between Poliziano and Cortesi	187
11.	The Dispute between The Elder Pico and Barbaro	228
12.	The Dispute between Giovan Francesco Pico and Bembo	249
	Conclusion	275
	Bibliography	279
	Index	297

Editorial Reviews

"McLaughlin possesses an enviable expertise in Renaissance Latin, and he unfolds his history with clarity and by making careful and revealing distinctions....We should be grateful...for the book that he has given us: a thorough and judicious treatment of a defining issue in Italian humanist thought."—Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies

"Very highly recommended..."—Chronique

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