Love's WoundsLove's Wounds takes an in depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhsia. Sixteenth and early seventeenth century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own