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Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance : The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo - Martin L. McLaughlin

Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance

The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo

By: Martin L. McLaughlin

Hardcover | 28 March 1996

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The concept of imitatio - the imitation of classical and vernacular texts - was the dominant critical and creative principle in Italian Renaissance literature. Linked to modern notions of intertextuality, imitation has been much discussed recently, but this is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on imitation, covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and vernacular works. Martin McLaughlin charts the emergence of the idea, in vague terms in Dante, then in Petrarch's more precise reconstruction of classical imitatio, before concentrating on the major writers of the Quattrocento. Some chapters deal with key humanists, such as Lorenzo Valla and Pico della Mirandola, while others discuss each of the major vernacular figures in the debate, including Leonardo Bruni, Leon Battista Alberti, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. For the first time scholars and students have an up-to-date account of the development of Ciceronianism in both Latin and the vernacular before 1530, and the book provides fresh insights into some of the canonical works of Italian literature from Dante to Bembo.
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`an excellent scholarly study.' The Yrs Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol.59, 1997. `important study ... Scope is a significant feature of this book, in two areas particularly. The study pushes Weinberg's periodization of literary theory much further into the past, allowing for a historical conspectus which is particularly interesting in the early period ... The other great merit of the book is the dual perspective between classical scholarship and the vernacular. McLaughlin's translations from Latin, especially, have a freshness and fluency which really does justice to the living thought and personality of the originals' Italian Studies ? reviewer, vol 54, 1999 `an excellent scholarly study' The Years Work in Modern Language Studies Vol 59, 1997

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