Cervantes, Raphael and the Classics
Part of Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
- Author: Frederick A. de Armas, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: August 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521152778
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Frederick de Armas argues in this work that throughout his literary career, Cervantes was engaged in a conversation with the classical authors of Greece and Rome, especially through the interpretations of antiquity presented by the artist Raphael. Rather than looking at Cervantes' texts in relation to other literary works, this book demonstrates how Cervantes' trip to Italy and his observation of Italian Renaissance art--particularly the works of Raphael at the Vatican--led him to create new images and structures in his works.
Read more- Good crossover between literature, classics, and art
- Special focus on the influence of Raphael
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"The strength of this remarkable book lies...in the introduction of new ways to examine a suggestive text and a key moment of transition. This erudite, audacious study invites the reader to consider the relation between literature and art, present and the past, structure and message systems. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Graduate students; researchers; faculty." Choice
See more reviews"De Armas has produced highly perceptive reading of cultrual encodings of myth, allegory, and visual symbol and demonstrated their importance for interpretation of early modern Spanish literary texts." Renaissance Quarterly
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- Date Published: August 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521152778
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
1. The politics of imitation
2. Raphael: a Vatican of the mind
3. Raphael: the archaeology of power
4. Giulio Romano: remembering Rome
5. Aeschylus: praising the enemy
6. Homer: an epic contest
7. Virgil: prophesying Empire
8. Lucan: the necromancy of imitation
9. Contaminatio: epic flames/textual ashes
10. Cicero/Macrobius: intimations of immortality
Notes
Works sited
Index.
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