Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance

Abstract

1. Introduction. Bembo, Petrarch, and Renaissance Belatedness. Spanish Alterity and the Language of Empire. Some Questions of Method -- 2. Poetic Theory in the Reign of Charles V: Castiglione and the Spanish Renaissance. The Spanish Appropriation of Il Cortegiano. Boscan and the Aesthetics of the Hendecasyllabic Line -- 3. Boscan, Garcilaso, and the Codes of Erotic Poetry. Boscan's Rewriting of the Rime sparse. Garcilaso and the Codes of Erotic Poetry. Garcilaso and the Primal Scene of Instruction -- 4. Herrera and the Return to Style. The Academic Canonization of Garcilaso. Herrera's Anotaciones I: Decentering Garcilaso. Herrera's Anotaciones II: The Poet's Eye. Love and Allusion: Petrarch and Garcilaso in the Poetry of Herrera -- 5. Gongora, Quevedo, and the End of Petrarchism in Spain. Gongora and the Poetics of Fulfillment. Parodic Petrarchism in Canta sola a Lisi. Conclusion: The End of Petrarchism in Spain.