O'Flaherty, C. and Shephard, T. orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-8916 (2024) Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth Satire. Renaissance Studies, 38 (4). pp. 541-562. ISSN 0269-1213
Abstract
The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469-1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity, most potently in the sixth satire. The five Renaissance commentaries printed alongside the satires in 1501 editions suggest how much contemporary scholars wished to say, or indeed not say, about these saucy musical passages. This article will examine the ways in which contemporary commentators unpack and explain musical aspects of the sixth satire, their surprisingly detailed and determined efforts adding up to a distinctive strand of music-historical study that is in evidence across numerous books of commentated classical verse from our 1501 corpus.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Renaissance Studies published by Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Keywords: | commentary; humanism; Juvenal |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Music (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2023 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 15:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/rest.12914 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204518 |
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