Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples
Erika Milburn
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: | MHRA Texts and Dissertations 57 Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association 1 January 2003 • 238pp ISBN: 978-1-902653-97-6 (paperback) • RRP £25, $40 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. Bibliography entry: Milburn, Erika, Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 57 (MHRA, 2003) First footnote reference: 35 Erika Milburn, Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 57 (MHRA, 2003), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Milburn, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Milburn, Erika. 2003. Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 57 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Milburn 2003: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Milburn 2003: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title was first published by Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association but rights to it are now held by Modern Humanities Research Association. This title is now out of print. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Luigi-Tansillo-Lyric-Poetry-in-Sixteenth-Century-Naples www.mhra.org.uk/publications/td-57 |
