@book{publication-6611,
  year = {2025},
  issn = {0075-1634},
  volume = {80},
  number = {2},
  url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yits20/80/2},
  title = {Italian Studies: Invention, Re-enactment, Exchange: Lyric Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Italy},
  editor = {Francesco Giusti and Laura Banella},
  abstract = {Mobilising the idea of lyric communities as a critical question and a heuristic tool, this special issue of Italian Studies explores the multiple relationships between lyric poetry and community formation in medieval and early modern Italy. The contributions offer a multifaceted picture of the ways in which lyric poetry was instrumental in articulating the ideas, values, and concerns of particular social groups, as well as contributing to the negotiation of social positions, political affiliations, religious bonds, and affective attachments. Three broad fields can be delineated in the variety of these relationships: invention denotes the dialectical tension between a shared poetic code and the poets’ concern to maintain their individuality within the community; re-enactment refers to the tendency of lyric poetry to be reused in various contexts for different and even conflicting purposes; exchange ranges from the material exchange of poems to the communities formed through and around authors and texts.

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Invention, Re-enactment, Exchange: Lyric Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Special Issue Editors
Laura Banella and Francesco Giusti
141 Invention, Re-enactment, Exchange: Lyric Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Laura Banella \&amp;amp; Francesco Giusti
152 Who Is a Lyric Poet in the High Middle Ages?
Ryan Pepin
161 Between Books and Friends: Dante’s Real and Ideal Lyric Communities
Laura Banella
173 Reading for Atmosphere: Pleasure, Lyric, and Community in the Cornice of Boccaccio’s Decameron
Francesca Southerden
187 Petrarch’s Transferable Communities: Open Deixis and Anonymous Addressees in the Fifteenth-Century Commentaries to the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Nicolas Longinotti
199 Extimacy and Mourning: Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Lyric Communities
Christine Ott
210 Joachim Du Bellay, the Murder of Livia Colonna (1522–1554), and Lyric Communities Between Rome and France
Jack Hayes
221 Poetic Filiations and Social Positions: Lyric Gestures and Poetic Code in Francesca Turini Bufalini
Francesco Giusti},
  keywords = {Lyrik,Lyriktheorie,Mittelalter,Frühe Neuzeit,Gemeinschaft,Gemeinschaftsbildung,soziale Praxis,Italienische Literatur,Gesellschaft,Lyrik-Gemeinschaften,Mittelalterliche Literatur,Frühneuzeitliche Literatur,Literaturwissenschaft,Italienisch},
}
