Cultural Non-conformity in Early Modern Florence

Download or read book Cultural Non-conformity in Early Modern Florence written by Domenico Zanrè and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individuals who form the focus of this study were relatively minor, yet fascinating, figures who operated on the cultural margins of sixteenth-century Florence during the rule of Cosimo I de' Medici. All of them were associated with, if not actually members of, the Florentine Academy. They include the courtesan and poetess Tullia d'Aragona; the scurrilous and controversial dramatist Antonfrancesco Grazzini; the hitherto unknown academician and satirist Alfonso de' Pazzi, and the equally unfamiliar hunchback poet Girolamo Amelonghi. In this volume, Domenico Zanre examines the ways in which these historical figures attempted to produce "alternative" literary responses within a dominant officially-sanctioned and closely-controlled environment which sought to contain and/or exclude them. Combining painstaking archival research with recent theoretical work on marginality and masculinity, this book represents an original and important contribution to the study of early modern cultural history, literature, and politics.