The court and its critics : anti-court sentiments in early modern Italy / Paola Ugolini.
2020
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Title
The court and its critics : anti-court sentiments in early modern Italy / Paola Ugolini.
Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Description
1 online resource
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1. The Courtier
A new manual for a new profession
The legacy of anti-courtly sentiments
The game and its space
Unhappy birds born in some miserable valley
Conspicuous exclusions
The courtier-counsellor
Mutable selves
The evolution of manuals of conduct at court
Anti-courtliness and the Book of the Courtier's epigones
Golden chains
2. The Lady
Women, anti-feminism, and anti-courtliness in the Italian Renaissance
The courtier's anxious masculinity
The court is a woman
The court is a witch
Love and courtliness
Court ladies and courtly power
Court ladies and courtly competition
Training a successful court lady
Courtly competition and the court virtuose
The warrior who sang with court ladies
The court is a whore
3. The Satirist
A paradise for satirists
Classical and medieval sources
De curialium miseriis and the onset of "modern" anti-court sentiments
Satire/satirist/sat
Anti-court satire par excellence: Ludovico Ariosto's Satire
Italian anti-court verse satire: Early examples and leitmotifs
The court in satires
Courtly Fortuna
Courtly payoffs
Courtly interactions
Courtly language
Courtly malaise
The courtly self
The courtier as Proteus
Anti-court satires and Renaissance society
The whore, the virgin, and the satyr
Ambition, success, and failure
From amusement to invective
Aretino's new anti-courtliness
The court of heaven, the printer's garden
The fate of the satirist
4. The Shepherd
Pastoral anti-courtliness
The villa versus the court
The depiction of villa life in early modern Italy
Anti-courtliness and agricultural literature
The pastoral community
Courtliness and anti-courtliness in pastoral plays
The anomaly of Tasso's pastoral writings
The anti-court motif in later pastoral plays
Anti-courtliness in Guarini's Pastor Fido
The redeemed court
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A new manual for a new profession
The legacy of anti-courtly sentiments
The game and its space
Unhappy birds born in some miserable valley
Conspicuous exclusions
The courtier-counsellor
Mutable selves
The evolution of manuals of conduct at court
Anti-courtliness and the Book of the Courtier's epigones
Golden chains
2. The Lady
Women, anti-feminism, and anti-courtliness in the Italian Renaissance
The courtier's anxious masculinity
The court is a woman
The court is a witch
Love and courtliness
Court ladies and courtly power
Court ladies and courtly competition
Training a successful court lady
Courtly competition and the court virtuose
The warrior who sang with court ladies
The court is a whore
3. The Satirist
A paradise for satirists
Classical and medieval sources
De curialium miseriis and the onset of "modern" anti-court sentiments
Satire/satirist/sat
Anti-court satire par excellence: Ludovico Ariosto's Satire
Italian anti-court verse satire: Early examples and leitmotifs
The court in satires
Courtly Fortuna
Courtly payoffs
Courtly interactions
Courtly language
Courtly malaise
The courtly self
The courtier as Proteus
Anti-court satires and Renaissance society
The whore, the virgin, and the satyr
Ambition, success, and failure
From amusement to invective
Aretino's new anti-courtliness
The court of heaven, the printer's garden
The fate of the satirist
4. The Shepherd
Pastoral anti-courtliness
The villa versus the court
The depiction of villa life in early modern Italy
Anti-courtliness and agricultural literature
The pastoral community
Courtliness and anti-courtliness in pastoral plays
The anomaly of Tasso's pastoral writings
The anti-court motif in later pastoral plays
Anti-courtliness in Guarini's Pastor Fido
The redeemed court
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Summary
"Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest. The Court and Its Critics analyzes anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. The book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments. The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power. The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining between anti-courtliness and antifeminism. The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: Ugolini, Paola, 1974- Court and its critics. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019
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English
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9781487532123 (electronic book)
1487532121 (electronic book)
9781487532161 (electronic book)
1487532164 (electronic book)
1487505442
9781487505448
1487532121 (electronic book)
9781487532161 (electronic book)
1487532164 (electronic book)
1487505442
9781487505448
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