Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’- K.M Sibbald (Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015) ‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’- Eric Clifford Graf (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016) ‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’- Felipe Valencia (Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017) ‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)

• AcknowledgementsNote on Editions and TranslationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Engaging the MaterialChapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving Tapestry CultureThe Poem as Fabric: Weavers and WritersChapter 2:  Empire, Memory, and History An Archive in ClothUnearthing CarthageChapter 3: Objects of Dubious PersuasionThe Lyre and the Viol(a)The Shell BoatA Marble StatueChapter 4: The Mirror and the UrnAt the Fountain of NarcissusThe Urn’s TaleChapter 5: Eros at Material SitesWeaver Nymphs in Crystal PalacesDaphne’s Scenographic BodyMapping the Humoral InteriorTablet of the SoulChapter 6: Staging Objects in PastoralFalling in Love with a StatueMourning Becomes MaterialConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’- K.M Sibbald (Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015) ‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’- Eric Clifford Graf (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016) ‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’- Felipe Valencia (Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017) ‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)

• AcknowledgementsNote on Editions and TranslationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Engaging the MaterialChapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving Tapestry CultureThe Poem as Fabric: Weavers and WritersChapter 2:  Empire, Memory, and History An Archive in ClothUnearthing CarthageChapter 3: Objects of Dubious PersuasionThe Lyre and the Viol(a)The Shell BoatA Marble StatueChapter 4: The Mirror and the UrnAt the Fountain of NarcissusThe Urn’s TaleChapter 5: Eros at Material SitesWeaver Nymphs in Crystal PalacesDaphne’s Scenographic BodyMapping the Humoral InteriorTablet of the SoulChapter 6: Staging Objects in PastoralFalling in Love with a StatueMourning Becomes MaterialConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’- K.M Sibbald (Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015) ‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’- Eric Clifford Graf (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016) ‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’- Felipe Valencia (Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017) ‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)

• AcknowledgementsNote on Editions and TranslationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Engaging the MaterialChapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving Tapestry CultureThe Poem as Fabric: Weavers and WritersChapter 2:  Empire, Memory, and History An Archive in ClothUnearthing CarthageChapter 3: Objects of Dubious PersuasionThe Lyre and the Viol(a)The Shell BoatA Marble StatueChapter 4: The Mirror and the UrnAt the Fountain of NarcissusThe Urn’s TaleChapter 5: Eros at Material SitesWeaver Nymphs in Crystal PalacesDaphne’s Scenographic BodyMapping the Humoral InteriorTablet of the SoulChapter 6: Staging Objects in PastoralFalling in Love with a StatueMourning Becomes MaterialConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex