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The Prince’s Body

Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

By: Valeria Finucci

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The Prince’s Body

Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

By: Valeria Finucci

Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.

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Harvard University Press

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067472545X

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9780674725454

The Manly Masquerade

Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

By: Valeria Finucci

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Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

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DIVAnalyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc./div

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Duke University Press

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0822330652

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9780822330653

The Lady Vanishes

Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

By: Valeria Finucci

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The Lady Vanishes

Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

By: Valeria Finucci

The Lady Vanishes focuses on the representation of women in two key works of the Italian Renaissance: Baldassarre Castiglione's treatise Il libro del cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) and Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando Furioso. Using feminist, deconstructive, and psychoanalytical arguments, the author investigates power relations and the construction of women's subjectivities in sixteenth-century debates on women and popular narratives." "The book examines the construction of women in different modes: woman as exemplary model and as ridiculed object; woman as narcissistically self-centered and as masochistically altruistic; woman as subject of desire and as object of desire; woman as ambiguously gendered and as radical spectacle of femininity. Because they offer an array of characters ranging from masculine women to feminized men and experiment with many forms of transgressive desire, Castiglione and Ariosto provide the perfect arena for problematizing the Italian Renaissance discourses on gender and sexual difference, on the production of pleasure and theories of selfhood, and on the body and modes of spectatorship." "The author argues that women are indispensable to Castiglione's conversation on the courtier and the court lady not because, as is often contended, he was sympathetic toward women, but because he found women useful for their central role in the male construction of men's own image. As for Ariosto, he resolves his narrative by subsuming women to culture and society, thus sealing out disorder. Although at times portraying female rebellion and resentment as empowering, in the end he punishes women displaying these qualities by banishing them from the text. In contrast, he celebrates the acquiescent woman in the figure of the lady warrior Bradamante, who, upon resuming a properly feminine role, becomes the progenitrix of a dynasty." "The Italian Renaissance discourse on women cast them in both assertive and docile roles. In the end, however, they were restrained or expelled; their society could envision a freer order for men but not for women."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Stanford University Press

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0804720452

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9780804720458

The Manly Masquerade

Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

By: Valeria Finucci

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Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

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DIVAnalyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc./div

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The Prince’s Body

Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

By: Valeria Finucci

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Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

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Harvard University Press

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The Lady Vanishes

Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

By: Valeria Finucci

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Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto

By: Valeria Finucci

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The Prince’s Body

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