Chaste thinking
Subtitle: the rape of Lucretia and the birth of humanism
By: by Stephanie H Jed.
Contributors: Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406.
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406.; Lucretia -- In literature.; Brutus, Lucius Junius -- In literature.; Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Chastity in literature.; Rape in literature.; Humanism -- History.; Humanists.; Liberty in literature.; Transmission of texts.; Rome -- In literature.
Description: "A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism; or the reception and continued transmission of humanist ideology in the U.S. today ; and of a significant but neglected text on Lucretia by Coluccio Salutati .... - Margaret W. Ferguson (back cover).

"Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideological relationship between sexual violence and humanistic discourse."--pub. webpage.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-158.
"Facsimile, transcription, and translation of Salutati's Declamatio Lucretiae": p. [133]-152.
Includes index.