Beasts and Beauties : : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance /

Beasts and Beauties : : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance / / Juliana Schiesari.

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The question of what it means to be human has preoccupied thinkers since antiquity. The classical humanism of the Italian Renaissance saw humanity as hierarchical, with elite European males at the apex while women, lower class or foreign men, and animals occupied varying lesser degrees of being. Usi...

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Schiesari, Juliana ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2010
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. 'Jewels of Women': Ladies, Laps, and Lapdogs in Renaissance Culture
  • 2. Portrait of the Poet as a Dog: Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5
  • 3. Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'Art' of Domination
  • 4. Della Porta's Face of Domestication: Physiognomy, Gender Politics, and Humanism's Others
  • 5. Psychoanalytic Intermezzo: Freud's Missed Reading of Leonardo's Alternative Humanism
  • 6. Versions of Diana: Gender and Renaissance Mythography
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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