An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense.
An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense.
Table of Illustrations Abbreviations Foreword PART I. Women and the court 1. Civility courtesy and women in the Italian Renaissance 2. Women as patrons and clients in the courts of Quattrocento Italy 3. Isabella Sforza: beyond the stereotype 4. Writing for women rulers in Quattrocento Italy: Antonio Cornazzano PART II. Women and the Church 5. Christian good manners: spiritual and monastic rules in the Quattro- and Cinquecento 6. Benedictine communities in Venetian society: the convent of S. Zaccaria 7. History writing from within the convent in Cinquecento Italy: the nuns' version 8. To take or not to take the veil: selected Italian case histories the Renaissance and after 9. The Virgin Mary: consoler protector and social worker in Quattrocento miracle tales PART III. Legal constraints and ethical precepts 10. Women and criminal law: the notion of diminished responsibility in Prospero Farinaccio (1544-1618) and other Renaissance jurists 11. Women between the law and social reality in early Renaissance Lucca 12. 'Amore maritale': advice on love and marriage in the second half of the Cinquecento 13. 'Pagare le pompe': why Quattrocento sumptuary laws did not work 14. Attacking sumptuary laws in Seicento Venice: Arcangela Tarabotti PART IV. Female models of comportment 15. Exemplary women in Renaissance Italy: ambivalent models of behaviour? 16. Womanly virtues in Quattrocento Florentine marriage furnishings 17. Persuasive pictures: didactic prints and the construction of the social identity of women in sixteenth-century Italy PART V. Women and the stage 18. Isabella Andreini and others: women on stage in the late Cinquecento 19. Gender deceptions: cross-dressing in Italian Renaissance comedy 20. Attitudes to women in the drama of Venetian Crete PART VI. Women and letters 21. Humanism and feminism in Laura Ceretas public letters 22. Seen but not heard: the role of women speakers in Cinquecento literary dialogue 23. Transformations of the 'buona Gualdrada' legend from Boccaccio to Vasari: a study in the politics of Florentine narrative 24. Marrying for love: society in the Quattrocento novella 25. Women and Italian Cinquecento literary academies 26. Aretino s Sei giornate: literary parody and social reality 27. The rhetoric of eulogy in Lucrezia Marinella's La nobiltà et 28. Vittoria Colonna as role model for Cinquecento women poets 29. Women and the making of the Italian literary canon Index of Historical Names
Table of Illustrations Abbreviations Foreword PART I. Women and the court 1. Civility courtesy and women in the Italian Renaissance 2. Women as patrons and clients in the courts of Quattrocento Italy 3. Isabella Sforza: beyond the stereotype 4. Writing for women rulers in Quattrocento Italy: Antonio Cornazzano PART II. Women and the Church 5. Christian good manners: spiritual and monastic rules in the Quattro- and Cinquecento 6. Benedictine communities in Venetian society: the convent of S. Zaccaria 7. History writing from within the convent in Cinquecento Italy: the nuns' version 8. To take or not to take the veil: selected Italian case histories the Renaissance and after 9. The Virgin Mary: consoler protector and social worker in Quattrocento miracle tales PART III. Legal constraints and ethical precepts 10. Women and criminal law: the notion of diminished responsibility in Prospero Farinaccio (1544-1618) and other Renaissance jurists 11. Women between the law and social reality in early Renaissance Lucca 12. 'Amore maritale': advice on love and marriage in the second half of the Cinquecento 13. 'Pagare le pompe': why Quattrocento sumptuary laws did not work 14. Attacking sumptuary laws in Seicento Venice: Arcangela Tarabotti PART IV. Female models of comportment 15. Exemplary women in Renaissance Italy: ambivalent models of behaviour? 16. Womanly virtues in Quattrocento Florentine marriage furnishings 17. Persuasive pictures: didactic prints and the construction of the social identity of women in sixteenth-century Italy PART V. Women and the stage 18. Isabella Andreini and others: women on stage in the late Cinquecento 19. Gender deceptions: cross-dressing in Italian Renaissance comedy 20. Attitudes to women in the drama of Venetian Crete PART VI. Women and letters 21. Humanism and feminism in Laura Ceretas public letters 22. Seen but not heard: the role of women speakers in Cinquecento literary dialogue 23. Transformations of the 'buona Gualdrada' legend from Boccaccio to Vasari: a study in the politics of Florentine narrative 24. Marrying for love: society in the Quattrocento novella 25. Women and Italian Cinquecento literary academies 26. Aretino s Sei giornate: literary parody and social reality 27. The rhetoric of eulogy in Lucrezia Marinella's La nobiltà et 28. Vittoria Colonna as role model for Cinquecento women poets 29. Women and the making of the Italian literary canon Index of Historical Names
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