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  • Widow City

    Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance

    by Anna Wainwright ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century—including Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, and Francesca Turina—and radically changed ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Gendering the Renaissance

    Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater, Anna Wainwright, Suzanne Magnanini, Nathalie Hester, Gabriella Zarri, Emanuela Zanotti Carney, Jennifer Haraguchi, Michael Sherberg0, Courtney Quaintance1 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

    by Shannon McHugh, Anna Wainwright, Amedeo Quondam, Virginia Cox, Lisa Bourla, Gerry Milligan, Eugenio Refini, Lisa Sampson, Sarah Gwyneth Ross0, Gabriella Zarri1, Monica Calabritto2, Armando Maggi3, Joseph Perna4, Lynn Lara Westwater5 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

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  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    by Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven ...
    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Read more

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  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    by Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

    Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular

    by Martin Eisner ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio ... Read more

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  • Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

    by George W. McClure ...
    Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.Beneath the frivolous exterior of such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society

    by Letizia Panizza ...
    "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. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Italy’s Eighteenth Century

    Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

    Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Catherine M. Sama ...
    In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

    by Ambra Moroncini ...
    Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Author Ambra Moroncini looks first and foremost at Michelangelo the poet and proposes a thought-provoking reading of Michelangelo’s most controversial artistic ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Dante

    Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art ... Read more

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