Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
by
Aileen Feng
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in...