Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune
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Author | : Irma B. Jaffe |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Italian poetry |
ISBN | : 9780823221806 |
Author | : Irma B. Jaffe |
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Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2002 |
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CD contains: Readings of selected poems from text.
Author | : Irma B. Jaffe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780823221813 |
CD contains: Readings of selected poems from text.
Author | : Marilyn Migiel |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2022-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487542593 |
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated her sexuality, an outspoken champion of women and their worth, and an important intellectual and cultural presence in sixteenth-century Venice. In Veronica Franco in Dialogue, Marilyn Migiel provides a nuanced account of Franco’s rhetorical strategies through a close analysis of her literary work. Focusing on the first fourteen poems in the Terze rime, a collection of Franco’s poems published in 1575, Migiel looks specifically at back-and-forth exchanges between Franco and an unknown male author. Migiel argues that in order to better understand what Franco is doing in the poetic collection, it is essential to understand how she constructs her identity as author, lover, and sex worker in relation to this unknown male author. Veronica Franco in Dialogue accounts for the moments of ambivalence, uncertainty, and indirectness in Franco’s poetry, as well as the polemicism and assertions of triumph. In doing so, it asks readers to consider their ideological investments in the stories we tell about early modern female authors and their cultural production.
Author | : Katherine Butler |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1783273712 |
The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.
Author | : Jill Burke |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639365915 |
An alternative history of the Renaissance—as seen through the emerging literature of beauty tips—focusing on the actresses, authors, and courtesans who rebelled against the misogyny of their era. Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this fascinating period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes from the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged, fueling debates about cosmetics and adornment. Telling the stories of courtesans, artists, actresses, and writers rebelling against the strictures of their time, when burgeoning colonialism gave rise to increasingly sinister evaluations of bodies and skin color, this book puts beauty culture into the frame. How to Be a Renaissance Woman will take readers from bustling Italian market squares, the places where the poorest women and immigrant communities influenced cosmetic products and practices, to the highest echelons of Renaissance society, where beauty could be a powerful weapon in securing strategic marriages and family alliances. It will investigate how skin-whitening practices shifted in step with the emerging sub-Saharan African slave trade, how fads for fattening and thinning diets came and went, and how hairstyles and fashion could be a tool for dissent and rebellion—then as now. This surprising and illuminating narrative will make you question your ideas about your own body, and ask: Why are women often so critical of their appearance? What do we stand to lose, but also to gain, from beauty culture? What is the relationship between looks and power?
Author | : Moderata Fonte |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0226256790 |
The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics—dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses—Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555–92) vehemently defends women’s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women’s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
Author | : Reinier Leushuis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004343717 |
In Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature, Reinier Leushuis examines a corpus of sixteenth-century love dialogues that exemplifies the dialogue’s mimetic qualities and validates its place in the literary landscape of the Italian and French Renaissance.
Author | : Gaspara Stampa |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226770729 |
Gaspara Stampa was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, but her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early eighteenth century. Her poetry runs the gamut of human emotion, ranging from ecstasy over a consummated love affair to despair at its end. While these tormented works and their multiple male addressees have led to speculation that Stampa may have been one of Venice’s famous courtesans, they can also be read as a rebuttal of typical assumptions about women's roles. Championed by Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, she has more recently been celebrated by feminist scholars for her distinctive and original voice and her challenge to convention. This is a translation of Stampa into English.