Title: Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice
Description: 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.
Subjects: Italian poetry, history and criticism, Women in literature, Sex in literature, Women and literature, Venice (italy), history, Masculinity in literature, Salons, Italian poetry, Male authors, History and criticism, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) in literature, History, Renaissance