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Book SynopsisA study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. This innovative study examines the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. These mechanisms served to delineate a national tradition that addressed the needs of a changing society and gave a "Spanish" physiognomy to the Italian experience, which ultimately led to the Golden Age. By examining such important texts as the sentimental fictions of Diego de San Pedro and Juan de Flores, the Spanish translation of Orlando Furioso, Don Quixote, and the Polifemo, Binotti first describes the conditions imposed on book production by both the expectationsof an elite audience and the limitations of the printing market while outlining the process of the creation of an expressive poetic language and the quest for literary models. She then looks at Ambrosio de Morales' chronicles andBernardo de Aldrete's Del Origen, showing how a cultural discourse founded on foreign scholarship paved the way for the establishment of innovative-and autochtonous-methods of historical and scientific analysis in the early seventeenth-century. LUCIA BINOTTI is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Trade ReviewValuable ... and interesting approaches to the cultural relationships between Spain and the Italian Renaissance, and the construction of national cultural identities. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *
Offers a variety of interesting approaches to the cultural relationships between Spain and the Italian Renaissance, and the construction of national cultural identities. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *
Thought provoking ... Lucia Binotti offers a well executed and informative contribution to the on-going analysis of Spanish nation-formation. * REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES, November 2013 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Italian Appropriation of Sentimental Fiction Shaping Cultural Capital away from Home: Literature and Canon Formation from Ariosto to Cervantes Visual Eroticism, Poetic Voyeurism: Ekphrasis and the Complexities of Patronage in Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea Creating Identity: Ambrosio de Morales and the Re-writing of Spanish History Historicizing Language, Imagining People: Aldrete and Linguistic Politics Conclusion Works Cited
