Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781442647558
Subjects: Vega, garcilaso de la, 1539-1616; Material culture; Spanish literature, history and criticism; Europe, history
Description: "Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the 'new poetry' of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly goods. In his poems, a variety of objects, including tapestries, paintings, statues, urns, mirrors, and relics participate in lyric acts of discovery and self-revelation, reveal memory as contingent and unstable, expose knowledge of the self as deceptive, and show how history intersects with the ideology of empire."--Publisher's Web site.