Greene, Thomas M.. The vulnerable text : essays on Renaissance literature

General notes

Bibliography: p. [237]-250 Includes index

Contents

Erasmus' "Festina lente" -- Petrarch Viator -- Il cortegiano and the choice of a game -- The end of discourse in Machiavelli's Prince -- The hair of the dog that bit you : Rabelais' thirst -- Rescue from the abyss : Scève's Dizain 378 -- Dangerous parleys : Montaigne's Essais I:5 and 6 -- Love's labour's lost -- Anti-hermeneutics : the case of Shakespeare's sonnet 129 -- Pitiful thrivers : failed husbandry in the Sonnets -- Ben Jonson and the centered self -- History and anachronism