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  • The Court and Its Critics – Anti–Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

    The Court and Its Critics – Anti–Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Ugolini, Paola;

    Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

    Series: Toronto Italian Studies;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher MY – University of Toronto Press
    • Date of Publication 18 March 2020

    • ISBN 9781487505448
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages312 pages
    • Size 236x161x27 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 b&w illustrations
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    Long description:

    Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest.

    The Court and Its Critics analyses anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. The book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments. The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power. The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining of anti-courtliness and anti-feminism. The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual.

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