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LITERATURE NEW Philippe de Commynes Memory, Betrayal, Text Irit Kleiman Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described as ‘the confessions of a traitor’: Commynes had abandoned Louis’ rival, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, before joining forces with the king. This study provides a literary re-evaluation of Commynes’ text – a perennial subject of scandal and fascination – while questioning what the terms ‘traitor’ or ‘betrayed’ meant in the context of fifteenthcentury France. Drawing on diplomatic letters and court transcripts, Irit Kleiman examines the mutual connections between writing and betrayal in Commynes’ representation of Louis’ reign, the relationship between the author and the king, and the emergence of the memoir as an autobiographical genre. This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure. Irit Kleiman is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University. Approx. 296 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2012 Cloth 978-1-4426-4562-2 $60.00 (£41.99) ITALIAN NEW Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation An Annotated Bibliography, 1929–2008 Robin Healey Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy’s most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author’s only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey’s Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. Robin Healey retired as collection development librarian for Italian studies, fine art, and anthropology at the University of Toronto in December, 2010. (Toronto Italian Studies) 1176 pp / 14 illustrations / 8 ½ x 11 / 2011 Cloth 978-1-4426-4269-0 $150.00 (£104.99) NEW Kissing the Wild Woman Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina’s Urania Christopher Nissen Kissing the Wild Woman explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Giulia Bigolina’s greatest surviving work, the prose romance Urania (circa 1552). The study demonstrates how Bigolina challenges cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of the paragone between painting and literature. It also shows how Bigolina orients her defence of women toward a rejection of the cult of visualized female beauty that predominated in the rhetoric and artistry of such figures as Aretino and Titian. It concludes with a discussion of Bigolina’s innovative treatments of certain romance topoi. Christopher Nissen is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Northern Illinois University. ‘Contributing to the ever-widening circle of research on early modern Italian women authors, this study will interest researchers in art history and Italian studies, as well as scholars of the theory of love and of the senses and historians of gender and women.’ Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome Study Center (Toronto Italian Studies) 336 pp / 4 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth 978-1-4426-4340-6 $75.00 (£52.99) 32 University of Toronto Press
LITERATURE Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy NEW Edited by William Robins Medieval Italy presented a rich array of discrete textual cultures, many of them specific to particular regions, professions, or groups of writers and readers. The essays in this collection consider how distinct habits of writing took root among specific communities in Italy between the early Middle Ages and the eve of the Renaissance. As a whole, the collection makes the case for combining abstract analyses such as textual theory and intellectual history with more technical specialties such as editing and codicology. Rather than approaching pre-modern Italian textuality as something uniform, Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy engages with its fascinating plurality. William Robins is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. ‘A stimulating collection [that] includes useful surveys and innovative articles.’ Brian Richardson, University of Leeds (Essays from the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems) 320 pp / 8 colour plates / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth 978-1-4426-4272-0 $70.00 (£48.99) Beasts and Beauties Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance Juliana Schiesari Beasts and Beauties traces the role of animals in Italian conceptions of humanity in a number of key texts from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century. The book delineates the co-development of two different forms of domestication since the Renaissance, specifically the new culture of domesticated animals that emerged in the modern phenomenon of the ‘pet,’ and the contemporaneous delineation of the home as a private domain, where the pater familias presided over his domesticated wife, children, servants – and animals. Using a methodology that is both feminist and psychoanalytic, Beasts and Beauties demonstrates how the figure of the animal resituates canonical works and authors in the Italian Renaissance in ways that help us rethink the notion of what it means to be human. Juliana Schiesari is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. ‘Beasts and Beauties offers compelling, energetically conveyed readings of otherness in texts and images of early modern Europe … it demonstrates effectively how an animal-centered approach to the cultural production of early modern Europe can help in understanding the construction of categories and hierarchies of humanness.’ Nathalie Hester, Renaissance Quarterly (Toronto Italian Studies) 176 pp / 9 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth 978-0-8020-9922-8 $45.00 (£31.99) ‘My Muse will have a story to paint’ dennis looney is an associate professor in the Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto Translated with an Introduction by Dennis Looney Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), best known for his 1516 epic poem Orlando furioso, was one of the great Italian poets of the Renaissance. In this collection, Dennis Looney presents a compendium of Ariosto’s prose, including his 214 Letters and a satirical piece, Herbal Doctor. While some letters shed light on his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others offer insight on the composition and production of his poems and plays, allowing a glimpse of the man in his creative workshop. With his elegant, faithful translation, Looney enriches our understanding of the Italian Renaissance and one of its greatest writers. Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. The lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library ‘We have no Empire, such as did the Romans, so powerful that subject cities spontaneously sought to emulate their rulers’ speech ... Nonetheless it can clearly be seen how, in our present times, many diverse people of intelligence and refinement, outside Italy no less than within Italy, devote much effort and study to learning and Dennis Looney is associate professor in the speaking our language for no other reason than love.’ – Giovan Batista Gelli, Ragionamento sulla lingua, 1551 Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. ‘This is the first time such a wide selection of Ariosto’s prose has been published in a language other than Italian. Both the Renaissance scholar and the reader interested in Cinquecento ‘This volume, life containing will the largest gain selection great of Ariosto’s prose benefit translated into any language, is truly commendable. from it.’ Dennis Looney’s precise, elegant interpretation is enhanced by a rich historical foreword and a well-assembled bibliography. Both general readers and scholars will appreciate this valuable Gian Paolo Giudicetti, Renaissance resource for defining Ariosto’s Quarterly life and time.’ Jacket illustrations: (front) Portrait of a Man, c.1512 (oil on canvas), Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c.1488–1576), National Gallery, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library International; (back) Letter 5, Archivio di Stato, Modena, Archivio Segreto Estense, Cancelleria Estero, Serie: Ambasciatori, agenti e corrispondenti all’estero, Italia, Roma, 131, Ludovico Ariosto, Dispaccio, 1509, 25 dic. Busta 20. Thanks to Director Euride Fregni for permission to reproduce the image (Prot. 1420/28.01.02/1.2). University of Toronto Press Jacket printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4426-4087-0 Roberto Fedi, Università per Stranieri di Perugia (The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) ISBN 978-1-4426-4087-0 320 pp / 2 photos; 1 map ,!7IB4E2-geaiha! / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth 978-1-4426-4087-0 $65.00 (£45.99) unIversITy oF ToronTo Press www.utppublishing.com lorenzo da ponte italian library Looney The Lorenzo Da PonTe ITaLIan LIbrary GeneraL eDITors: LuIGI baLLerInI anD MassIMo CIavoLeLLa ‘My T Ludovi 1516 ep Italian Dennis prose, i Herbal Ario of the w letters his wor ing Este compos allowin shop. H and Ne a defen philolo differen With provide Ariosto Italian R (The Lo utppublishing.com 33
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