Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the evolving role of the widow in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to women poets including Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, as a key model demonstrating to readers how to mourn and how to live well after devastating loss.
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the evolving role of the widow in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to women poets including Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, as a key model demonstrating to readers how to mourn and how to live well after devastating loss.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
ANNA WAINWRIGHT is an associate professor of Italian studies and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is coeditor of the volumes Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (Delaware, 2020, with Shannon McHugh), Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide (2023, with Matthieu Chapman), and The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2023, with Unn Falkeid).
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Widowhood and the tre corone Chapter One: Dante, Petrarch, and the Ethics of Widowhood Chapter Two: Boccaccio’s Many Merry Widows Part II: Context: Model Widows, Holy and Historical Chapter Three: Sacred Role Models from Judith and Anna to Birgitta of Sweden Chapter Four: Dido, Death, and Exemplarity: Public Widowhood from Petrarch to Vittoria Colonna Part III: The Widow’s Voice Chapter Five: Widowed Verse: Christine de Pizan, Vittoria Colonna, and Francesca Turina Chapter Six: “Widowhood for its own sake”: Widows in Two Dialogues of the Counter-Reformation Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Widowhood and the tre corone Chapter One: Dante, Petrarch, and the Ethics of Widowhood Chapter Two: Boccaccio’s Many Merry Widows Part II: Context: Model Widows, Holy and Historical Chapter Three: Sacred Role Models from Judith and Anna to Birgitta of Sweden Chapter Four: Dido, Death, and Exemplarity: Public Widowhood from Petrarch to Vittoria Colonna Part III: The Widow’s Voice Chapter Five: Widowed Verse: Christine de Pizan, Vittoria Colonna, and Francesca Turina Chapter Six: “Widowhood for its own sake”: Widows in Two Dialogues of the Counter-Reformation Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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