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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 308 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x156x23 mm, kaal: 68 g, 10 bw, 3 color images
  • Sari: The Early Modern Exchange
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press
  • ISBN-10: 1644533049
  • ISBN-13: 9781644533048
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 308 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x156x23 mm, kaal: 68 g, 10 bw, 3 color images
  • Sari: The Early Modern Exchange
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press
  • ISBN-10: 1644533049
  • ISBN-13: 9781644533048
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"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 might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields"--

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 might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.


The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.

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"Enriches our understanding of the gender dynamics that shaped the Renaissance and early modern era. . . . Essential reading for early modernists. . . . A provocative, well-researched, and highly engaging study that appeals to students, specialists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of gendered discourses in early modern Italian history, literature, and culture. . . . Ultimately, this book reminds us that understanding gender in its full complexity enhances our knowledge of history and culture." (Modern Philology) "Enriches our understanding of the gender dynamics that shaped the Renaissance and early modern era. . . . Essential reading for early modernists. . . . A provocative, well-researched, and highly engaging study that appeals to students, specialists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of gendered discourses in early modern Italian history, literature, and culture. . . . Ultimately, this book reminds us that understanding gender in its full complexity enhances our knowledge of history and culture." (Modern Philology)

Acknowledgments ix
Beyond the Wall: Gender as Nexus in Renaissance Italy 1(22)
Meredith K. Ray
Lynn Lara Westwater
Part I Gendering Genre
1 Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance Florence
23(22)
Anna Wainwright
2 Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte's Fairy Tale
45(24)
Suzanne Magnanini
3 Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry
69(24)
Nathalie Hester
Part II Gendering Identities
4 The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d'Este (1515-1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia
93(28)
Gabriella Zarri
Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin
5 A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci's Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma
121(30)
Emanuela Zanotti Carney
6 Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Lazio
151(26)
Jennifer Haraguchi
Part III Gendering Sanctity
7 The State of Grace in the Libro del Cortegiano
177(20)
Michael Sherberg
8 Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Rome
197(34)
Courtney Quaintance
9 "Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven": Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti's Paradiso Monacale
231(32)
Meredith K. Ray
Lynn Lara Westwater
Bibliography 263(24)
Contributors 287(4)
Index 291
Meredith K. Ray is Elias Ahuja Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. Her books include Margherita Sarrocchis Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, and Writing Gender in Womens Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance. Her translations include Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, co-edited with Mark Jurdjevic and, with Lynn Lara Westwater, Arcangela Tarabottis Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise.

Lynn Lara Westwater is a professor of Italian at The George Washington University. Her books include Sarra Copia Sulam: A SalonniÈre and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice; with Meredith K. Ray, critical editions of Arcangela Tarabottis Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise; and with Diana Robin, a critical edition of Ippolita Sforzas writing titled Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations.