Garcilaso De La Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Editions and TranslationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Engaging the MaterialChapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving Tapestry CultureThe Poem as Fabric: Weavers and WritersChapter 2:  Empire, Memory, and History An Archive in ClothUnearthing CarthageChapter 3: Objects of Dubious PersuasionThe Lyre and the Viol(a)The Shell BoatA Marble StatueChapter 4: The Mirror and the UrnAt the Fountain of NarcissusThe Urn’s TaleChapter 5: Eros at Material SitesWeaver Nymphs in Crystal PalacesDaphne’s Scenographic BodyMapping the Humoral InteriorTablet of the SoulChapter 6: Staging Objects in PastoralFalling in Love with a StatueMourning Becomes MaterialConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’- K.M Sibbald (Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015) ‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’- Eric Clifford Graf (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016) ‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’- Felipe Valencia (Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017) ‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)