%0 Journal Article
%T Audience and Quattrocento Pastoral: the Case of Jacopo Sannazaro¡¯s Arcadia
%A Matteo Soranzo
%J Skepsi
%D 2009
%I University of Kent
%X This paper examines the two versions of Jacopo Sannazaro¡¯s Arcadia in relation to their original audiences. Its goal is to propose a new interpretation of this classical Renaissance work and to rethink current notions of audiences and readers. On the one hand, I examine Sannazaro¡¯s contacts with the culture of humanism, and in particular with what Christopher Celenza labels ¡°culture of disputation¡±. On the other hand, I seek to reconstruct the audience of Arcadia¡¯s two versions within Pierre Bourdieu¡¯s concepts of ¡°field¡± and ¡°habitus¡±. The results of this study are a deeper understanding of the text in light of the author¡¯s close relationships with Ippolita Maria Sforza¡¯s court and Giovanni Pontano¡¯s intellectual community.Also, this study seeks to overcome the dichotomy between implied and empirical readers by rethinking the problem of audience in a broader sociological framework.
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