The Ugly Woman : : Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque / / Patrizia Bettella.
The ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. Mostly used between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - from the invectives of Rustico Filippi, Fra...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag
- 2. Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute
- 3. The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura
- 4. New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index