Textual Masculinity And The Exchange Of Women In Renaissance Venice

Author : Courtney Quaintance
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442649135
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice written by Courtney Quaintance and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the pornographic poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues written in poet Domenico Venier's social circle, showing how male writers created female characters who were defiled and available to all. Also shows how two women writers with ties to the salon appropriated and transformed these tropes of female sexuality.

Author : Courtney Quaintance
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442619538
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice written by Courtney Quaintance and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier’s social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they wrote and circulated poems in Venetian dialect in which women were prostitutes whose defiled bodies were available to all. Courtney Quaintance analyses poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues to show how male writers established, sustained, and publicized their relationships to one another through the exchange of fictional women. She also shows how Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco, two women writers with ties to the salon, appropriated and transformed tropes of female sexuality and male literary collaboration to position themselves within this homosocial literary economy. Based on archival work and Quaintance’s exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature.

Author : Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837651701
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Premodern Masculinities in Transition written by Konrad Eisenbichler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, deconstructed, and transformed across time, geographies, and cultures. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth century, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians, from Baudri of Bourgueil to Blaise de Monluc; while topics include the chivalric hero, the effeminate man, beards, and spurs, represented variously in literature, historical documents, and art. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, they show how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions.

Author : Marilyn Migiel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487542593
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veronica Franco in Dialogue written by Marilyn Migiel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Aileen A. Feng
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487500777
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Beloveds written by Aileen A. Feng and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800084307
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy written by Virginia Cox and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.

Author : Stanley Chojnacki
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801863950
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Men in Renaissance Venice written by Stanley Chojnacki and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.

Author : Lynn Lara Westwater
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487505833
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarra Copia Sulam written by Lynn Lara Westwater and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women's writing in Venice and explores her rise and fall as a public intellectual in the tumultuous world of the city's presses.

Author : Katherine Butler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783273712
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Katherine Butler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003813895
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance written by Meredith K. Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture, making it easy for educators to integrate women’s history into the study of the past and for the general reader to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview. • Each chapter functions as a stand-alone study, combining an engaging narrative biography with an expert grasp of the cultural, political, and artistic context of this historical period to allow students and lecturers to either use parts or the whole of this book to support their studies and teaching. • Taken as a whole, students will be shown that these women were not isolated cases of female exceptionality, but rather a part of a larger and more complex tapestry of Renaissance achievement, one that connects them to one another as well as to the male writers, artists, and leaders whose names many readers will already know. • Interwoven within each chapter are primary sources (letters, poems, sketches) and portraits of each of the women discussed, providing students with a fuller picture of these women.