Lucrezia Marinella and the "querelle des femmes" in seventeenth-century Italy
By: Paola Malpezzi Price and Christine Ristaino.
Contributors: Ristaino, Christine, 1967-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780838641224
Subjects: Marinella, Lucrezia, -- 1571-1653 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women -- Italy -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-195) and index.
Table of contents: value: Renaissance society, the female intellectual, and Lucrezia Marinella; value: Arcadia felice and the limits of Renaissance female authorship; value: Amore innamorato, et impazzato and Ersilia's allegorical quest; value: Marinella's religious poetry and the male and female spiritual journey; value: The epic woman: L'Enrico ovvero bisanzio acquistato; value: La nobiltà et eccellenza delle donne and the new public woman; value: The paradoxical conflict of Lucrezia Marinella: Essortationi alle donne et a gli altri, se a loro saranno a grado.