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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on literary imitation, the key critical concept of the period, Covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and the vernacular, Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance charts the development of the idea from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, offering fresh insights into major works of Italian literature from Dante to Bembo.

The concept of imitatio - the imitation of classical and vernacular texts - was the dominant critical and creative principle in Italian Renaissance literature. Linked to modern notions of intertextuality, imitation has been much discussed recently, but this is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on imitation, covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and vernacular works. Martin McLaughlin charts the emergence of the idea, in vague terms in Dante, then in Petrarch's more precise reconstruction of classical imitatio, before concentrating on the major writers of the Quattrocento. Some chapters deal with key humanists, such as Lorenzo Valla and Pico della Mirandola, while others discuss each of the major vernacular figures in the debate, including Leonardo Bruni, Leon Battista Alberti, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. For the first time scholars and student have an up-to-date account of the development of Ciceronianism in both Latin and the vernacular before 1530, and the book provides fresh insights into some of the canonical works of Italian literature from Dante to Bembo.

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Introduction		I
Part 1	The Trecento		9
1.	Dante		11
2.	Petrarch		22
3.	Boccaccio		49
4.	Coluccio Salutati		67
Part 2	The Early Quattrocento		79
5.	Leonardo Bruni		81
6.	Humanist Educators		98
7.	The Dispute between Poggio and Valla		126
Part 3	Vernacular Humanism		147
8.	Leon Battista Alberti		149
9.	Cristoforo Landino		167
Part 4	The Major Disputes Around 1500		185
10.	The Dispute between Poliziano and Cortesi		187
11.	The Dispute between The Elder Pico and Barbaro		228
12.	The Dispute between Giovan Francesco Pico and Bembo		249
Conclusion		275
Bibliography		279
Index		297