Heiple, Daniel L.
Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions. Especially important in these analyses are the poetic practices of Petrarchism as defined by Pietro Bembo and the reaction against them proclaimed by Bernardo Tasso. XV,428 Seiten mit 15 Abb., gebunden (Penn State studies in romance literatures/Pennsylvania State University Press 1994) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben, Bleistifteintragung auf Schmutztitel/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed, pencil entries on half-title