Idealizing women in the Italian Renaissance / edited by Elena Brizio and Marco Piana.
"The twelve articles in this volume analyse the process of idealization of women in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the rhetorical, philosophical, or historical tools used in this process, and how this vision differed from theory to practice. Each article explores a concret...
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Toronto, Ontario :
Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies,
2022.
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| Series: | Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Mandates for Women's Mourning in the Early Renaissance: Paintings and the Law in Trecento Siena / Judith B. Steinhoff
- A Depiction of Virtue and Beauty: The Patronage of The Saint Ursula Fresco in the Church of San Giorgio at Montemerano / Sandra Cardarelli
- Idealizing the Female Hero: Representations of Judith in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting / Mathilde Legeay
- A Good Woman, a Good Wife: Strategies of Idealization in Sperone Speroni's Dialogo della Dignità delle Donne / Benedetta Lamanna
- Philosophy, Religion, and the Praise of Women in Lucrezia Marinella / Francesca D'Alessandro Behr
- Female Exemplarity, Identity, and Devotion in Lucrezia Marinella's Rime sacre (1603) / Sarah Rolfe Prodan
- Idealized Actresses: Rebellious Female Voices / Rosalind Kerr
- Incarnating the Ideal: Vincenza Armani, the First Diva / Serena Laiena
- For his Wife and Lover: Pontano's De Amore Coniugali / Pina Palma
- Femininity and Food Culture in Cinquecento Italy / Laura Giannetti
- Ideal Sister, Ideal Poet: Cassandra and Gaspara Stampa / Jane Tylus.