Helgerson, Richard. A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Book review)

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HELGERSON, RICHARD. A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007. xvii + 120 pages.

In this slim but remarkable volume, Richard Helgerson, one of the most distinguished critics of early modern literature and culture writing today, explores the Italianate poetry of the Renaissance and early modern period through the lens provided by one of Garcilaso's less-studied sonnets, "A Boscan desde la Goleta." He also provides a bilingual anthology of the series of poems that Garcilaso wrote during ...

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