A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

by Marc Föcking, Florian Mehltretter, Susanne A. Friede

'Anticlassicisms, ' as a plural, react to the many possible forms of 'classicisms.' In the sixteenth century, classicist tendencies range from humanist traditions focusing on Horace and the teachings of rhetoric, via Pietro Bembo's canonization of a 'second antiquity' in the works of the fourteenth-century classics, Petrarch and Boccaccio, to the Aristotelianism of the second half of the century. Correspondingly, the various tendencies to destabilize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110783339
• ISBN13: 9783110783339
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"