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Article: Chivalry unmasked: courtly spectacle and the abuses of romance in Sidney's 'New Arcadia.' (Philip Sidney)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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In 1584, an exiled Italian Protestant humanist dedicated his translation of twenty-five of the Psalms into Latin hexameters to Philip Sidney. According to Katherine Duncan-Jones, Scipio Gentile laid particular emphasis, in praising Sidney's accomplishments, on his "most magnificent devising of shows and his equestrian feats."(1) Gentile was presumably referring to Sidney's regular participation in Elizabeth I's Accession Day tilts, as well as the speeches and lyrics he wrote for other chivalric spectacles - most notably the pageants of May 1581, in which he appeared as one of the four Foster Children of Desire who laid siege to the queen's "Fortress of Perfect Beauty."(2) ...
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