The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo
Mclaughlin, Martin L.
Mclaughlin
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Hardcover
Edition: Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs
322 pages
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Published: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198158998
The concept of imitatio - the imitation of classical and vernacular texts - was a dominant critical and creative principle in Italian Renaissance literature. This study charts the development of imitatio from the 14th to the early 16th centuries, offerin
