{"product_id":"petrarchism-at-work-9781501700019","title":"Petrarchism at Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (13041374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These Petrarchan poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poetsas craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in \u003ci\u003ePetrarchism at Work\u003c\/i\u003e, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePetrarchism at Work\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKennedy's command of the source materials and close readings of poetic variants are exceptional. With \u003ci\u003ePetrarchism at Work\u003c\/i\u003e he has written another authoritative and original study of Petrarch's legacy that will greatly impact theeld.\u003c\/p\u003e * Renaissance Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially to English-language students of Renaissance literature and history who seek to weigh the importance of one of Renaissance Europe's principal literary idioms as its distinctive forms appear in a representative variety of national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e * Renaissance and Reformation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Marketplace of Mercury \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry\u003cbr\u003e1. Petrarch as \u003cem\u003eHomo Economicus\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision \u003cbr\u003e3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa’s Entrepreneurial Poetics \u003cbr\u003e4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pléiade Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard’s Investment in \u003cem\u003eLes Amours \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto \u003cbr\u003e3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in \u003cem\u003eLes Amours de Marie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing \u003cem\u003eSonnets pour Hélène \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man \u003cbr\u003e2. Polish and Skill: Will’s Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61–99 \u003cbr\u003e3. Owning Up to \u003cem\u003eFuror\u003c\/em\u003e: The \"Poets’ War\" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100–126\u003cbr\u003e4. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1–60 \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Mercurial Economies \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409317142871,"sku":"9781501700019","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501700019.jpg?v=1730506398","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/petrarchism-at-work-9781501700019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}