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Unlikely Exemplars - Reading and Imitating beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Unlikely Exemplars - Reading and Imitating beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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This book explores questions of reading and writing practices in
the French Renaissance. While the imitation of great masters of the
past, such as Petrarch, was a staple of Renaissance poetics, French
poets of the mid-1500s, including Saint-Gelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard,
Baif, and Magny, often turned to a set of unlikely exemplars: the
second-rate poets published in a series of volumes known as the
Italian Anthologies. Part one provides a general context for this
surprising practice by examining modern and Renaissance theories of
minor model imitation, Italian canon formation, the publishing of
phenomenon of the anthologies and other florilegia, the use of
personal commonplace books, and RonsardOs own annotated copies of
these anthologies. Part two shows how these French poets applied
the principle of fragmentary exemplarity in their imitations and
how they used these sources to engage in a dialogue with each other
that featured displays of rivalry and playfulness.
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