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Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy - Couverture rigide

Kolsky, Stephen

 
9780860789291: Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0860789292 ISBN 13 : 9780860789291
Editeur : Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier, expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Kolsky is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860789292
ISBN 13 
9780860789291
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
350
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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