Research Catalog

Title

Luigi Tansillo and lyric poetry in sixteenth-century Naples / by Erika Milburn.

Author

Milburn, Erika

Publication

Leeds : Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Modern Humanities Research Association

Description

x, 227 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Luigi Tansillo is one of the most interesting and representative of the Petrarchist poets active in Naples during the mid-sixteenth century. This study reconsiders his substantial lyric corpus from a variety of perspectives, opening with a survey of the textual tradition and previous critical work on his verse. Four of Tansillo's lyric collections are examined in depth, and read from narrative and thematic points of view. Particular emphasis is placed on the evolution of the collections, by exploring the ways in which very different types of narrative implying different underlying poetics can be constructed using often identical poems. Parallel to this is a consideration of Tansillo's place within the broader literary historical context, and his use of verse as a political and ideological tool in the service of the Spanish viceroy of Naples. These detailed studies of individual poetic sequences are complemented by an analysis of Tansillo's poetic language within the context of Neapolitan reactions to the questione della lingua, and of his contribution to creating a fixed iconology for the representation of jealousy in the Renaissance and Baroque lyric."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

MHRA texts and dissertations ; v. 57

Uniform Title

Texts and dissertations v. 57.

Subject

• Tansillo, Luigi, 1510-1568
• Tansillo, Luigi, 1510-1568 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1500-1599
• Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism
• Italian poetry > Italy > Naples > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Textual Tradition and Critical Reception -- 2. Tansillo's Early Manuscript Canzonieri -- 3. Tansillo in Print: 1551-52 -- 4. Language Debate and Literary Practice: Tansillo's 'voci nuove' -- 5. 'D'invidia e d'amor figlia si ria': Jealousy and the Lyric Tradition -- App. 1. 'Alcune stanze del pianto di San Pietro' -- App. 2. Three Letters to Benedetto Varchi -- App. 3. A Bibliography of Jealousy Texts.

ISBN

1902653971

OCLC

• 53118802
• SCSB-12086799

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library