Early Tudor Politics in Verse
Parliamentary, Diplomatic, and Literary Sources of the 1486 De nuptiis Henrici et Elisabet of Giovanni Gigli
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7167549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Carlson (0000-0002-0067-2400, University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 355-371 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/735047 |
| OpenAlex | W4410956681 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The humanism of the poet-diplomat Giovanni Gigli (1434–98) was a matter of putting his knowledge of antiquity to use in contemporary affairs, literary and otherwise, as exemplified by the classical-style epithalamium that he wrote and published in England to celebrate the 1486 marriage of the English king Henry VII (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503), meant to settle England’s divisive “Wars of the Roses” (1455–87). Gigli was personally involved in the internal and international political negotiations that brought the marriage about, and his participation informs the poem he wrote, which bases itself on the best-known ancient epithalamia, of Statius, Claudian, and Venantius Fortunatus, but also uses papal-diplomatic and English parliamentary records
Art · Literature · Political science · Politics · Historical Studies of British Isles · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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