ISBN:
9781781884591
,
1781884595
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Italian perspectives 37
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.094509031
Keywords:
Ariosto, Lodovico Criticism and interpretation
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Ariosto, Lodovico
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Ariosto, Lodovico - 1474-1533
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1500-1699
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Learned institutions and societies History 16th century
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Learned institutions and societies History 17th century
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Italian literature History and criticism 16th century
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Italian literature
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Learned institutions and societies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Sociétés savantes et instituts - Italie - Histoire - 16e siècle
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Sociétés savantes et instituts - Italie - Histoire - 17e siècle
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Littérature italienne - 16e siècle - Histoire et critique
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Italy
Abstract:
The Italian critic Francesco De Sanctis (1817-1883) identified Italianness with backwardness in order to oppose it to European modernity and promote a process of Europeanization of Italy. Two targets stood out in his attack on Italian backwardness: Chivalry and the Academies. A century and a half later we are able to acknowledge the continuity rather than the break between Italian early modernity and European modernity, revisiting a biased paradigm that no longer works and reassessing the historical importance of Chivalry and the Academies as cultural mediators. Divided into three sections devoted to chivalric poems, academic debates and Anglo-Italian relations, and dedicated to the work of Jane E. Everson, who has highly contributed to the re-evaluation of Italian early modernity, this volume gathers together some of the major experts of early modern Italy and highlights the relevance of Italian early modernity in framing and shaping European culture well into our contemporary world
URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16kkzcq
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