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Zusatztext "Clearly influenced by the project of Renaissance self-fashioning, Biow is intrigued by those figures who appeared to defy all the rules for getting ahead in the dominant court culture of the period and yet who nonetheless found patrons or customers . . . As a literary scholar Biow spends most of his time unfolding the meaning of the textual self-representations of his selected individuals, emphasizing in his interpretations the importance to them of work. This is a helpful counterbalance to the usual sixteenth-century discourse of nobility that disparages both manual labor and commerce." Informationen zum Autor Douglas Biow is Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for European Studies, and Superior Oil Company Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (2006). Klappentext In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale. Zusammenfassung In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale.
