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635079
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Cox, Virginia.
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| Title & Author
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Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /\ Virginia Cox.
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xxviii, 464 pages ;; 25 cm
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9780801888199 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0801888190 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-446) and index.
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| Contents
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Origins (1400-1500). The "learned lady" in Quattrocento Italy: an emerging cultural type ; The "learned lady" in theory: models of gender conduct and their contexts ; The "learned lady" as signifier in humanistic culture ; Renaissance particularism and the "learned lady" -- Translation (1490-1550). Women, the courts, and the vernacular at the turn of the early sixteenth century ; Sappho surfaces: the first female vernacular poets ; Bembo, Petrarchism, and the reform of Italian literature ; "So dear to Apollo": Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna after 1530 ; Founding mothers, first ladies: Gambara and Colonna as models and icons -- Diffusion (1540-1560). Manuscript and print in the "age of the Council of Trent" ; Virtù rewarded: the contexts of women's writing ; Women writers and their uses: case studies ; Literary trajectories: continuity and change ; Women writers and the paradox of the pedestal --
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Intermezzo (1560-1580) -- Affirmation (1580-1620). Women's writing in the age of the Counter-Reformation ; Chivalry undimmed: the contexts of women's writing ; A literature of their own? Writing, ownership, assertion ; The twilight of gallantry -- Backlash (1590-1650). The rebirth of misogyny in Seicento Italy ; Misogyny and the woman writer: the redomestication of feminine virtù ; Women's writing in Seicento Italy: decline and fall -- Coda -- Appendix A: Published writings by Italian women, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries -- Appendix B: Dedications of published works by women.
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Italian literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Italian literature-- History and criticism.
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Women and literature-- Italy-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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850.9/9287
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PQ4063.C69 2008
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