Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Rewriting
5. Without Hierarchy: Diffraction, Performance, and Re-writing as Kippbild in Dante’s Vita nova 9
6. Anakyklosis. Transformation of Transformations 25
7. Rewriting, Re-figuring. Pietro Aretino’s Transformations of Classical Literature 45
8. Liber mentalis: the Art of Memory and Rewriting 71
9. 2. Rewritings in Early Modern Literature
10. “nulla son io; […] due siam fatti d’uno” (Geta e Birria) – Subtracting by Duplicating, or The Transformations of Amphitryon in the Early Modern Period 99
11. From Plague to Scabies. Rewriting Lucretius in Angelo Poliziano’s Sylva in scabiem 127
12. Hippocrates for Princes: Ippolito de’ Medici’s Retratti d’aphorismi 143
13. The Inner-Poetic History of Latin Love Poetry in Tito Vespasiano Strozzi’s Eroticon 157
14. Shipwrecked Souls. Menippean Satire and Renaissance Textuality 179
15. Ariosto’s Rewriting of Ancient and Contemporary Models in Italian Verse Satire 197
16. From Venice to Basel. Curione’s Rewritings 213
17. Pietro Aretino, St. John the Baptist and the Rewriting of the Psalms 225
18. Rewriting the Bible in Pietro Aretino’s Genesi (1538) 253
19. Aretino’s Rewritings of the Bible 273
20. Index of names 287