Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples

Using five case studies set in fifteenth-century Naples, Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples investigates how early modern poets used poetry to negotiate their cultural identity in a field of options and possibilities. Presented in chronological order, the analyses focus on the reciprocal relations among Giovanni Pontano, Jacopo Sannazaro, and other poets writing in neo-Latin and the vernacular during the twilight of the Aragonese domination.