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Chivalry, Academy, and Cultural Dialogues: The Italian Contribution to European Culture

Chivalry, Academy, and Cultural Dialogues: The Italian Contribution to European Culture

Jossa, Stefano
Pieri, Giuliana

Hardcover

Series: Italian Perspectives, Book 37

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 1781884579
ISBN13: 9781781884577
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Dec 19 2016
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The Italian critic Francesco De Sanctis (1817-1883) identified Italianness with backwardness in order to oppose it to European modernity and promote a process of Europeanization of Italy. Two targets stood out in his attack on Italian backwardness: Chivalry and the Academies. A century and a half later we are able to acknowledge the continuity rather than the break between Italian early modernity and European modernity, revisiting a biased paradigm that no longer works and reassessing the historical importance of Chivalry and the Academies as cultural mediators. Divided into three sections devoted to chivalric poems, academic debates and Anglo-Italian relations, and dedicated to the work of Jane E. Everson, who has highly contributed to the re-evaluation of Italian early modernity, this volume gathers together some of the major experts of early modern Italy and highlights the relevance of Italian early modernity in framing and shaping European culture well into our contemporary world.

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