Letizia Panizza

Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351199063
• Artikelnr.: 50405807

Autorenporträt

Panizza, Letizia

Inhaltsangabe

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