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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
Folger call number: HQ1149.I8 W66 2000
Folger holdings ID: 110712
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
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