Women in Italian Renaissance culture and society / edited by Letizia Panizza.

Women in Italian Renaissance culture and society / edited by Letizia Panizza.

Oxford : Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, 2000.

xxi, 523 p. : ill, ports, facsims. ; 22 cm

Exemplary women in Renaissance Italy : ambivalent models of behaviour? / Marta Ajmar -- Womanly virtues in quattrocento Florentine marriage furnishings / Paola Tinagli -- Persuasive pictures : didactic prints and the construction of the social identity of women in sixteenth century Italy / Sara F. Matthews Grieco -- Isabella Andreini and others : women on stage in the late cinquecento / Richard Andrews -- Gender deceptions : cross-dressing in Italian Renaissance comedy / Maggie Günsberg -- Attitudes to women in the drama of Venetian Crete / Rosemary E. Bancroft-Markus -- Humanism and feminism in Laura Cereta's public letters / Diana Robin -- Seen but not heard : the role of women speakers in cinquecento literary dialogue / Virginia Cox -- Transformation of the 'buona Gualdrada' legend from Boccaccio to Vasari : a study in the politics of Florentine narrative / Pamela J. Benson -- Marrying for love : society in the quattrocento novella / Judy Rawson -- Women and Italian cinquecento literary academies / Conor Fahy -- Aretino's Sei Giornate : literary parody and social reality / Giovanni Aquilecchia -- The rhetoric of eulogy in Lucrezia Marinella's La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne / Adriana Chemello -- Vittoria Colonna as role model for cinquecento women poets / Giovanna Rabitti -- Women and the making of the Italian literary canon / Nadia Cannata Salamone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civility, courtesy and women in the Italian Renaissance / Dilwyn Knox
Women as patrons and clients in the courts of Quattrocento Italy / Evelyn S. Welch
Isabella Sforza : beyond the stereotype / Francine Daenens
Writing for women rulers in quattrocento Italy : Antonio Cornazzano / Diego Zancani
Christian good manners : spiritual and monastic rules in the quatro- and cinquencento / Gabriella Zarri
Benedictine communities in Venetian society : the convent of S. Zaccaria / Victoria Primhak
History writing from within the convent in cinquecento Italy : the nuns' version / Kate Lowe
To take or not take the veil : selected Italian case histories, the Renaissance and after / Francesca Medioli
The Virgin Mary : consoler, protector and social worker in quattrocento miracle tales / Ruth Chavasse
Women and criminal law : the notion of diminished responsibility in Prospero Farinaccio (1544-1618) and other Renaissance jurists / Marina Graziosi
Women between law and social reality in early Renaissance Lucca / Christine Meek
'Amore maritale' : advice on love and marriage in the second half of the cinquecento / Brian Richardson
'Pagare le pompe' : why quattrocento sumptuary laws did not work / Jane Bridgeman
Attacking sumptuary laws in seicento Venice : Arcangela Tarabotti / Daniela De Bellis

Exemplary women in Renaissance Italy : ambivalent models of behaviour? / Marta Ajmar
Womanly virtues in quattrocento Florentine marriage furnishings / Paola Tinagli
Persuasive pictures : didactic prints and the construction of the social identity of women in sixteenth century Italy / Sara F. Matthews Grieco
Isabella Andreini and others : women on stage in the late cinquecento / Richard Andrews
Gender deceptions : cross-dressing in Italian Renaissance comedy / Maggie Günsberg
Attitudes to women in the drama of Venetian Crete / Rosemary E. Bancroft-Markus
Humanism and feminism in Laura Cereta's public letters / Diana Robin
Seen but not heard : the role of women speakers in cinquecento literary dialogue / Virginia Cox
Transformation of the 'buona Gualdrada' legend from Boccaccio to Vasari : a study in the politics of Florentine narrative / Pamela J. Benson
Marrying for love : society in the quattrocento novella / Judy Rawson
Women and Italian cinquecento literary academies / Conor Fahy
Aretino's Sei Giornate : literary parody and social reality / Giovanni Aquilecchia
The rhetoric of eulogy in Lucrezia Marinella's La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne / Adriana Chemello
Vittoria Colonna as role model for cinquecento women poets / Giovanna Rabitti
Women and the making of the Italian literary canon / Nadia Cannata Salamone.

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