Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Renaissance imitation : the example of Wyatt
  • The Petrarchan context of Spenser's Amoretti
  • Escaping the Squires'double bind in The Faerie Queene
  • Queen Elizabeth and the politics of Petrarchism
  • Synge's Irish Ranaissance Petrarchism
  • Leopardi and Pound's apprehension of the Italian past
  • Homer, Dante, Vico, Croce, Joyce
  • Pound's Machiavellian moment
  • Ezra Pound, the last Ghibelline
  • Understanding modernist imitation : Mozart contra Wagner in Ulysses
  • In search of the true Dantescan voice
  • Pound's map of Italian literature for Mussolini.