Authorial personality and the making of Renaissance texts : the force of character / by Pfeiffer, Douglas S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: style and the man -- How to judge a book by its author -- The peopling of Valla's De falso (1440): character fiction at the origin of modern philology -- Erasmus's Vita hieronymi (1516): taking editorial work personally -- Gascoigne's wandering "I" in A hundreth sundrie flowres (1573) & The posies (1575) -- Fulke Greville speaks to the dead in A dedication to Sir Philip Sidney (1614) -- Epilogue: biographism as close reading in Shakespeare's sonnet 76 (1609) and Machiavelli's "Letter to Vettori (1513).…”