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Subtitle: writing & social strain in the Italian Renaissance
By: Lauro Martines.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Italian literature -- To 1400 -- History and criticism; Italian literature -- 15th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Italian literature -- Social aspects; Local color in literature; Social problems in literature; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559
Description: Neighborhood voices in poetry - The verbal web of patronage - Prayer in the urban setting - Love and history : men against women - Suicide of a poet - Alienation : the outsider as poet - Cruelty in the community - Seduction and family space - Poetry as political memory - Crisis in the generation of 1494.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index.