Gendering the Renaissance : : Text and Context in Early Modern Italy / / ed. by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater.
The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Modern Exchange
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Beyond the Wall: Gender as Nexus in Renaissance Italy
- Part I Gendering Genre
- 1 Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance Florence
- 2 Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte’s Fairy Tale
- 3 Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry
- Part II Gendering Identities
- 4 The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d’Este (1515–1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia
- 5 A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’s Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma
- 6 Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Lazio
- Part III Gendering Sanctity
- 7 The State of Grace in the Libro del Cortegiano
- 8 Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Rome
- 9 “Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven”: Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paradiso Monacale
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index