The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.
The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.
Meredith K. Ray is Elias Ahuja Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. Her books include Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, and Writing Gender in Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance. Her translations include Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, co-edited with Mark Jurdjevic and, with Lynn Lara Westwater, Arcangela Tarabotti’s Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise. Lynn Lara Westwater is a professor of Italian at The George Washington University. Her books include Sarra Copia Sulam: A Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice; with Meredith K. Ray, critical editions of Arcangela Tarabotti’s Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise; and with Diana Robin, a critical edition of Ippolita Sforza’s writing titled Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Wall: Gender as Nexus in Renaissance Italy Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Part I Gendering Genre 1 Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance Florence Anna Wainwright 2 Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte’s Fairy Tale Suzanne Magnanini 3 Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry Nathalie Hester Part II Gendering Identities 4 The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d’Este (1515–1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia Gabriella Zarri (translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin) 5 A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’s Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma Emanuela Zanotti Carney 6 Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Lazio Jennifer Haraguchi Part III Gendering Sanctity 7 The State of Grace in the Libro del Cortegiano Michael Sherberg 8 Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Rome Courtney Quaintance 9 “Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven”: Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paradiso Monacale Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Bibliography Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Wall: Gender as Nexus in Renaissance Italy Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Part I Gendering Genre 1 Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance Florence Anna Wainwright 2 Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte’s Fairy Tale Suzanne Magnanini 3 Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry Nathalie Hester Part II Gendering Identities 4 The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d’Este (1515–1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia Gabriella Zarri (translated by Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin) 5 A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’s Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma Emanuela Zanotti Carney 6 Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Lazio Jennifer Haraguchi Part III Gendering Sanctity 7 The State of Grace in the Libro del Cortegiano Michael Sherberg 8 Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Rome Courtney Quaintance 9 “Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven”: Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paradiso Monacale Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater Bibliography Contributors Index
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