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In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theory, Ignacio Navarrete offers a new exposition of the development of Spanish Renaissance poetics. Grounded in both philology and cultural theory, Orphans of Petrarch is the first book to integrate the "Spanish difference" into an understanding of Renaissance lyric as a European phenomenon.
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"No one reading Navarrete's presentation will ever see this poetry in the same way again. He provides a much needed historical renovation of the entire period, which in turn creates a new hermeneutic for each poet covered. This is an impressive contribution to our understanding of both the poetry and the cultural history of the epoch. The work has a coherent critical agenda which reorganizes our view of a very broad topic."--Edward Dudley, State University of New York, Buffalo
