The portrayal of love : Botticelli's Primavera and humanist culture at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent / by Charles Dempsey.
Widely acknowledged as a prime manifestation of Florentine humanist culture under Lorenzo de' Medici, Botticelli's Primavera cannot be fully interpreted without considering the poetics that expressed the Laurentian cultural program and, in turn, the Renaissance itself. In this analysis Cha...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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Table of Contents:
- Poetry as painting : the classical Materia of Botticelli's invention for the Primavera
- Poetry as public myth : the Priomavera and vernacular expression
- Poetry as history : Lucrezia Donati, Luigi Pulci's Da poi 'l Lauro, and some poems by Lorenzo de'Medici
- Poetry as historical fiction : Lorenzo de'Medici, Simonetta Cattaneo, and Lucrezia Donati
- Reading the poem
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Poetry as Painting: The Classical Materia of Botticelli's Invention for the Primavera
- 2. Poetry as Public Myth: The Primavera and Vernacular Expression
- 3. Poetry as History: Lucrezia Donati, Luigi Pulci's Da poi che 'l Lauro, and Some Poems by Lorenzo de'Medici
- 4. Poetry as Historical Fiction: Lorenzo de'Medici, Simonetta Cattaneo, and Lucrezia Donati
- 5. Reading the Poem
- Index.