Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Courtier
2. The Lady
3. The Satirist
4. The Shepherd

Afterword

Bibliography

About the Author

Paola Ugolini is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.

Reviews

" The Court and Its Critics is an outstandingly well-researched and engagingly written monograph, revealing a new analytical purchase on Cinquecento politics. While offering the kind of intricate textual analysis that is the hallmark of a literary critic, Paola Ugolini toggles deftly between text and context, considering reception as well as wider social, economic, and political settings."--Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College
"Paola Ugolini's is the first major study to offer a systematic examination of anti-court discourse written largely by courtiers themselves, in a remarkably wide range of genres. We know pieces of the textual tradition she traces in this study, but Ugolini puts this mosaic together to form a whole, adding to the corpus of anti-courtly texts by such major authors as Sannazaro, Ariosto, Aretino, Tasso, and Guarini, and a massive collection of lesser-known writings by more minor figures. The result is a discursive landscape in which something that has always been present becomes visible in its full contours, where the trees become a veritable forest of anti-courtly sentiment."--Deanna Shemek, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine