{"product_id":"speaking-spirits-2","title":"Speaking Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as \u003cem\u003eeidolopoeia\u003c\/em\u003e. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSpeaking Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian \u003cem\u003eeidolopoeia\u003c\/em\u003e. Expanding the study of Renaissance \u003cem\u003eeidolopoeia\u003c\/em\u003e beyond the well-known cases of the shades in Dante’s \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e and the spirits of Boccaccio’s \u003cem\u003eDe casibus vivorum illustrium\u003c\/em\u003e, Roush examines many other appearances of famous ghosts – invocations of Boccaccio by Vincenzo Bagli and Jacopo Caviceo, Girolamo Malipiero’s representation of Petrarch in Limbo, and Girolamo Benivieni’s ghostly voice of Pico della Mirandola. Through close readings of these eidolopoetic texts, she illuminates the important role that this rhetoric played in the literary, legal, and political history of Renaissance Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Sherry Roush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219038744956,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442623019.jpg?v=1768195585","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/speaking-spirits-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}