Synopses & Reviews
Daniel Maira examines French canzonieri inspired by Petrarch to determine if the new editorial practices of the Renaissance led to the poetic definition of a literary genre. Editorial references adapted to the paratextual discourse in neo-Latin romantic collections helped to establish their generic identity and amaze the reader. For the first time, a literary genre was studied based on the publication that it had inspired, and Typosine, the muse of printing, entered into the esthetic discourse on romantic writing. French text.