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).…”

Petrarchism at work : contextual economies in the age of Shakespeare / by Kennedy, William J. 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The marketplace of Mercury -- Petrarch and Italian poetry -- Petrarch as homo economicus -- Making Petrarch matter: the parts and labor of textual revision -- Jeweler's daughter sings for doge: Gaspara Stampa's entrepreneurial poetics -- Incommensurate gifts: Michelangelo and the economy of revision -- Pierre de Ronsard and Pléiade aesthetics -- Polished to perfection: Ronsard's investment in Les Amours -- Ronsard Furieux: interest in Ariosto -- Passions and privations: writing sonnets like a pro in Les Amours de Marie -- The smirched muse: commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène -- Shakespeare's sonnets and the economy of Petrarchan aesthetics -- To possess is not to own: the cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man -- Polish and skill: Will's interest and self-interest in sonnets 61-99 -- Owning up to furor: the poets' war and its aftermath in sonnets 100-126 -- Shakespeare as professional: the economy of revision in sonnets 1-60 -- Mercurial economies.…”

Petrarchism at work : contextual economies in the age of Shakespeare / by Kennedy, William J. 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The marketplace of Mercury -- Petrarch and Italian poetry -- Petrarch as homo economicus -- Making Petrarch matter: the parts and labor of textual revision -- Jeweler's daughter sings for doge: Gaspara Stampa's entrepreneurial poetics -- Incommensurate gifts: Michelangelo and the economy of revision -- Pierre de Ronsard and Pléiade aesthetics -- Polished to perfection: Ronsard's investment in Les Amours -- Ronsard Furieux: interest in Ariosto -- Passions and privations: writing sonnets like a pro in Les Amours de Marie -- The smirched muse: commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène -- Shakespeare's sonnets and the economy of Petrarchan aesthetics -- To possess is not to own: the cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man -- Polish and skill: Will's interest and self-interest in sonnets 61-99 -- Owning up to furor: the poets' war and its aftermath in sonnets 100-126 -- Shakespeare as professional: the economy of revision in sonnets 1-60 -- Mercurial economies.…”
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