LEADER 04634nam 2200661 450 001 9910466251103321 005 20210515231824.0 010 $a1-5017-0380-3 010 $a1-5017-0381-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703812 035 $a(CKB)3710000000631025 035 $a(EBL)4517897 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001640165 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16399395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001640165 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14794773 035 $a(PQKB)10008030 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001517318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517897 035 $a(OCoLC)945976698 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51403 035 $a(DE-B1597)478305 035 $a(OCoLC)979634102 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703812 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517897 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248558 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL951825 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000631025 100 $a20160904h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPetrarchism at work $econtextual economies in the age of Shakespeare /$fWilliam J. Kennedy 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5017-0001-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on References --$tIntroduction --$tPart One. Petrarch and Italian Poetry --$t1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus --$t2. Making Petrarch Matter --$t3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge --$t4. Incommensurate Gifts --$tPart Two. Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision --$t1. Polished to Perfection --$t2. Ronsard Furieux --$t3. Passions and Privations --$t4. The Smirched Muse --$tPart Three. Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics --$t1. To Possess Is Not to Own --$t2. Polish and Skill --$t3. Owning Up to Furor --$t4. Shakespeare as Professional --$tConclusion --$tWorks Cited as Primary Texts --$tIndex 330 $aThe Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) 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 poets-as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy.Petrarchism at Work 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. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet's divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet's acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pléiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces. 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xEconomic aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a809.031 686 $aIT 6605$2rvk 700 $aKennedy$b William J$g(William John),$f1942-$0847909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466251103321 996 $aPetrarchism at work$92478627 997 $aUNINA