Valeria Finucci

The Manly Masquerade

Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

"Valeria Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."--Armando Maggi, author of "Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330653
• ISBN-10: 0822330652
• Artikelnr.: 22064047

Autorenporträt

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1
1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical
Births 37
2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's
La mandragola 79
3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and
Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119
4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso
159
5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La
calandria 189
6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225
Selected Bibliography 281
Index 307