Main entry:

Terpening, Ronnie H., 1946-

Title & Author:

Lodovico Dolce, Renaissance man of letters / Ronnie H. Terpening.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.

Description:

vi, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
1. 'Miserabile Insieme, e Glorioso': introduction to the life, works, and milieu of Lodovico Dolce -- 2. Between Ariosto and Tasso: the Sacripante and the Prime imprese del conte Orlando -- 3. 'I Costumi d'Hoggidi': Dolce and the Commedia of the Cinquecento -- 4. Between lord and lady: the tyrant's captain in Dolce's Marianna -- 5. From imitation to emulation: Dolce's classicism and the fate of Infelix Dido in cinquecento tragedy 6. 'Non Mai Stanco di Giovare': the prose dialogues and treatises.

Summary:

In Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters, Ronnie Terpening revives and reassesses the work of a minor but significant sixteenth-century humanist, said to have led a life 'both wretched and glorious'. Although Dolce (1510?-1568) gained universal renown in his own century and was considered a cultivated scholar and writer, few today recognize his importance as one of the major transmitters of culture in Cinquecento Italy. This is the first comprehensive study in English of the literary works of Dolce. It integrates a critical rereading of his writings with a history of the literary and cultural milieu of late sixteenth-century Italy.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0802041590
9780802041593

Subject:

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568 Criticism and interpretation.
Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568 Critique et interprétation.
Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568
Dolce, Lodovico 1508-1568
Dolce, Lodovico.
18.29 Italian literature.
02.01 history of science and culture.
Humanisten.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197094
Call No.: ID PQ4621.D3.Z884; ID:98-B391
Status: Available