Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Mary Lindemann is professor emerita of history, University of Miami. Her most recent books include: Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (2006), Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (2nd ed., 2009), and The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 (2015). She is currently writing a book on the wars of the mid to late seventeenth century and especially their aftermath in Brandenburg. Deanna Shemek is professor of Italian and European studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (1998) and of In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of Letters (2021). She has coedited numerous volumes, including Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara (2005), Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives (2008), and Itinera chartarum: 150 anni dell’Archivio di Stato di Mantova (2019). She co-directs IDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive, an online project for study of the Italian Renaissance.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Redreaming the Renaissance: Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek Part I Visions Reflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari’s Lives 21: Douglas Biow Dream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento: Alessandro Arcangeli Bianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile’s Teagene and The Tale of Tales: Suzanne Magnanini Part II Passions Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives: Joanne Ferraro Giovanni’s Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy: Paula Findlen Tullia d’Aragona’s Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Julia L. Hairston Part III Dramas Playing with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage: Konrad Eisenbichler Tarquinia Molza and “Le cose del cielo”: Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy: Meredith K. Ray Women, Opera, and Onestà in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Courtney Quaintance Part IV Methods The Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto’s Last Proems of 1516: Albert Russell Ascoli Microhistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography: Nicholas Terpstra News in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information: Massimo Rospocher Contributors Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Redreaming the Renaissance: Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek Part I Visions Reflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari’s Lives 21: Douglas Biow Dream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento: Alessandro Arcangeli Bianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile’s Teagene and The Tale of Tales: Suzanne Magnanini Part II Passions Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives: Joanne Ferraro Giovanni’s Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy: Paula Findlen Tullia d’Aragona’s Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Julia L. Hairston Part III Dramas Playing with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage: Konrad Eisenbichler Tarquinia Molza and “Le cose del cielo”: Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy: Meredith K. Ray Women, Opera, and Onestà in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Courtney Quaintance Part IV Methods The Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto’s Last Proems of 1516: Albert Russell Ascoli Microhistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography: Nicholas Terpstra News in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information: Massimo Rospocher Contributors Index
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