Contents

List of Figures and Color Plates

Introduction: A Japanese Friend

Part I

1. The Rebirth of Poetics

2. The Rebirth of Ruins

Part II

3. Petrarch’s Vestigia and the Presence of Absence

4. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments

5. Du Bellay’s Cendre and the Formless Signifier

6. Spenser’s Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins

Epilogue: Fallen Castles and Summer Grass

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index