Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /

Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /

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Author / Creator:	Cox, Virginia.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Italian literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Italian literature > History and criticism. Italian literature. Women and literature > Italy > History. Women and literature. History. Italian literature > Women authors. Italy.
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Table of Contents:

0. Acknowledgments
0. Introduction
0. Chapter One
1. The\"Learned Lady" in Quattrocento Italy
2. The\"Learned Lady" in Theory
3. The\"Learned Lady" as Signifier in Humanistic Culture
4. Renaissance Particularism and the "Learned Lady"
0. Chapter Two
1. Women, the Courts, and the Vernacular in the Early Sixteenth Century
2. Sappho Surfaces
3. Bembo, Petrarchism, and the Reform of Italian Literature
4. "So Dear to Apollo"
5. Founding Mothers, First Ladies
0. Chapter 3
1. Manuscript and Print in the "Age of the Council of Trent"
2. Virtù Rewarded
3. Women Writers and Their Uses
4. Literary Trajectories
5. Women Writers and the Paradox of the Pedestal
0. Chapter Four
0. Chapter Five
1. Women's Writing in the Age of the Counter-Reformation
2. Chivalry Undimmed
3. A\Literature of Their Own?
4. The\Twilight of Gallantry
0. Chapter 6
1. The\Rebirth of Misogyny in Seicento Italy
2. Misogyny and the Woman Writer
3. Women's Writing in Seicento Italy
0. Coda
0. Appendix A
0. Appendix B
0. Notes
0. Bibliography
0. Index