Introduction
1. The Courtier
2. The Lady
3. The Satirist
4. The Shepherd
Afterword
Bibliography
Paola Ugolini is an assistant professor in the Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at
Buffalo.
" The Court and Its Critics is an outstandingly well-researched and
engagingly written monograph, revealing a new analytical purchase
on Cinquecento politics. While offering the kind of intricate
textual analysis that is the hallmark of a literary critic, Paola
Ugolini toggles deftly between text and context, considering
reception as well as wider social, economic, and political
settings."--Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston
College
"Paola Ugolini's is the first major study to offer a systematic
examination of anti-court discourse written largely by courtiers
themselves, in a remarkably wide range of genres. We know pieces of
the textual tradition she traces in this study, but Ugolini puts
this mosaic together to form a whole, adding to the corpus of
anti-courtly texts by such major authors as Sannazaro, Ariosto,
Aretino, Tasso, and Guarini, and a massive collection of
lesser-known writings by more minor figures. The result is a
discursive landscape in which something that has always been
present becomes visible in its full contours, where the trees
become a veritable forest of anti-courtly sentiment."--Deanna
Shemek, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine
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