Prison of Love

Emily C. Francomano is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: "A book that could not be read in peace"Part One: Authors, Translators, NetworksChapter 1: Cárcel de Amor, an Accessus Ad Auctores Chapter 2: Translating AuthorshipChapter 3: "Easie Languages:" The Free and Faithful Translation of The Prison of LovePart Two: MaterialitiesChapter 4: Textual Material: Allegory and Material Epistolarity in The Prison of LoveChapter 5: Prisons in Print: The Material BooksChapter 6: Visual Rhetoric: Reading Printed Images in The Prison of Love, 1493 to 1546Part Three: French RemediationsChapter 7:  ‘Private Treasures’: La Prison d’Amours IlluminatedChapter 8: From Text to Textile: L’Histoire de Lérian et LauréolleConclusionAppendix A: The Translators’ ParatextsAppendix B:  Extant Printed Editions of The Prison of Love in Spanish, Italian, French and English 1492-1621 Appendix C: Extant Manuscripts of The Prison of LoveReferences

"In this highly original volume, Francomano traces the transformation of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de amor (The Prison of Love) from a small-format, unillustrated book printed in Seville in 1492 to luxury French manuscripts and tapestries, considering other versions and translations along the way…Francomano’s theoretically engaged analysis of visual, material, and book culture will appeal to specialists in 16th- and 17th-century studies and beyond."- P. W. Manning (Choice Connect October 2018 vol. 56 # 2) "Emily Francomano’s splendid case study of Carcel’s editorial, intellectual, material, and social history across Europe in the sixteenth century traces how it was transformed from a Castilian sentimental romance into a broad cultural multimedia phenomenon, which she calls The Prison of Love…[this] is a study that everyone interested in the history of literacy and material bibliography, and their effects on the formation of the early modern social and political imaginary, should read."- E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia (Renaissance Quarterly, vol 72 no 2)