"No siendo sino para mujeres": modelos poéticos, filografía y lectura en Boscán
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‘For women only’: Poetic Models, Philographies and Reading in Joan Boscán
The essay analyzes the valuation critics made of hendecasyllable poetry for female readers
focusing in the reception preview made by Boscán in the epistle «A la duquesa
de Soma» at the beginning of his Book II. The present study contextualizes Boscán’s
rejection and adaptation of Italian forms and styles, the relationship between metric
and philography and the new female model sketched in the verses, the theory and the
reading practices. It concludes with the assessment of the poet’s conscience of the new
dimension gained by his poetry