The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy / / Anthony F. D’Elia.
Weddings in fifteenth-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs that often required guests to listen attentively to lengthy orations given in Latin. In this book, Anthony D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superior...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Marriage and Wisdom from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- 2 The Revival of the Ancient Epithalamium in Courtly Weddings
- 3 Weddings as Propaganda
- 4 The Culture of Marriage and Sex in Italian Courts
- 5 Humanist Criticisms of Celibacy and the Reformation
- Conclusion
- A Finding-List for Wedding Orations in the Italian Renaissance
- Notes
- Index