TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feng,Aileen A.
TI  - Writing beloveds: humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender 
T2  - Toronto Italian studies
SN  - 1487511795
AV  - PQ4103 .F45 2017eb
U1  - 851/.409 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Petrarca, Francesco,
KW  - Humanism in literature
KW  - Italian poetry
KW  - 16th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Petrarchism
KW  - Politics in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY
KW  - Continental European
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world -- In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century -- Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century -- Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel -- Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism
N2  - "This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1whm95b
ER  -