Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne PDF
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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts Editor-in-Chief Francis G. Gentry Emeritus Professor of German, Penn State University Editorial Board Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Cynthia Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara Marina Brownlee, Princeton University Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University Alastair Minnis, Yale University Brian Murdoch, Stirling University Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection VOLUME 11 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/mrat Portrait of Montaigne. French School, circa 1590. (From Philippe Desan. Portraits à l’essai. Iconographie de Montaigne. Etudes montaignistes 50. Paris: Champion, 2007, p. 70.) Private Collection. Courtesy Philippe Desan. Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne By Cynthia Skenazi LEiDEn • BOSTOn 2013 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Skenazi, Cynthia. Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi. pages cm. — (Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, iSSn 0925-7683 ; volume 11) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-90-04-25466-4 (hardback : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-90-04-25572-2 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. European literature—Renaissance, 1450–1600—History and criticism. 2. Aging in literature. 3. Aging—Europe—History. 4. Older people—Europe—History. i. Title. Pn721.S54 2013 809’.031—dc23 2013027542 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, iPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. iSSn 0925-7683 iSBn 978-90-04-25466-4 (hardback) iSBn 978-90-04-25572-2 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill nV, Leiden, The netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, iDC Publishers and Martinus nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. In memory of my parents COnTEnTS Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... ix Abbreviations ................................................................................................... xi introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1 A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body ....................................................... 15 Galen ...................................................................................................... 17 Petrarch ................................................................................................. 22 Ficino and Zerbi .................................................................................. 28 Cornaro .................................................................................................. 36 Erasmus ................................................................................................. 42 Montaigne ............................................................................................. 47 Conclusion ............................................................................................ 58 2 The Circulation of Power and Knowledge ....................................... 61 Petrarch ................................................................................................. 64 Castiglione ............................................................................................ 79 Montaigne ............................................................................................. 86 Conclusion ............................................................................................ 95 3 Love in Old Age ........................................................................................ 98 Petrarch ................................................................................................. 100 Ronsard .................................................................................................. 105 Montaigne ............................................................................................. 111 Pasquier ................................................................................................. 119 Conclusion ............................................................................................ 136 4 Then and now ............................................................................................. 138 The Care of the Aging Self ............................................................... 139 Erasmus’s Colloquium “The Old Men’s Chat” ............................. 142 A Way of Life and a Mode of Discourse: The Case of Montaigne ................................................................ 150 In Vino Veritas ...................................................................................... 165 Bibliography ..................................................................................................... 167 index ................................................................................................................... 177
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