Italy's eighteenth century
Subtitle: gender and culture in the age of the grand tour
By: edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama.
Contributors: Findlen, Paula.; Roworth, Wendy Wassyng.; Sama, Catherine M.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780804759045
Subjects: Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Sex role -- Italy -- History -- 18th century; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Italy -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Description: This work illuminates the social and cultural landscape of 18th-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cicisbei : Italian morality and European values in the eighteenth century / Roberto Bizzocchi; title: The temple of female glory : female self-affirmation in the Roman salon of the grand tour / Maria Pia Donato; title: Giustina Renier Michiel and conflicting ideas of gender in late eighteeenth-century Venice / Susan Dalton; title: Revisiting Arcadia : women and academies in eighteenth-century Italy / Elisabetta Graziosi; title: "On the canvas and on the page" : women shaping culture in eighteenth-century Venice / Catherine M. Sama; title: "The residence of the arts" : Angelica Kauffman's place in Rome / Wendy Wassyng Roworth; title: Strange births and surprising kin : the castrato's tale / Martha Feldman; title: Sex without sex : an erotic image of the castrato singer / Roger Freitas; title: The anatomy of a lesbian : medicine, pornography, and culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen; title: As who dare gaze the sun : Anna Morandi Manzolini's wax anatomies of the male reproductive system and genitalia / Rebecca Messbarge; title: Between modesty and spectacle : women and science in eighteenth-century Italy / Marta Cavazza; title: "Monsters of talent" : fame and reputation of women improvisers in Arcadia / Paola Giuli; title: Gender and genre in the religious art of the Catholic Enlightenment / Christopher M.S. Johns.