Hayes, Jack;
(2023)
Franco-Italian Literary Sociability and Early Modern Rome
(1545-60).
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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This thesis studies literary sociability among French and Italian speakers in élite social circles constituted around cardinals and ambassadors in mid-sixteenth century Rome to examine the formation and negotiation of socio-political identities. It uses a variety of poetic sources in French, Italian and Latin to argue that poetic exchange took on important socio-political functions through a turbulent period of Franco-Italian relations at the end of the Italian Wars (1494-1559) and during the Council of Trent (1545-63). Moving successively through three poetic genres – lyric, epic and pastoral – the thesis argues that much early modern poetry should be seen functionally, that is, as a tool put into service in the pursuit of defined social goals. By drawing on canonical authors together with ‘minor’ authors and occasional verse, and reading with particular attention to textual materiality and paratextuality, it demonstrates too the centrality of social networks to early modern poetic production. This thesis offers a major contribution to studies of Roman literary cultures of the sixteenth century; it discusses texts which have never been the focus of scholarly work, and its findings emphasise the often acknowledged but rarely examined role of the Roman court of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-89) as a key site of literary production and patronage. In addition, it sheds new light on well-studied French expatriate writers, notably Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522-60), by reconsidering their writing within the context of contemporaneous Roman production and insisting on the importance of Rome’s plurilingual culture in the production of literary works.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Franco-Italian Literary Sociability and Early Modern Rome (1545-60) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174119 |
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