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Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy - From Sprezzatura to Satire (Paperback)
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Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy - From Sprezzatura to Satire (Paperback)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and
Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as
described and represented in literary texts and costume books in
the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early
Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and
culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging
its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe
and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the
'animatedness of clothing,' author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the
political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the
core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as
maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social
institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of
clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as
Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio's The
Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by
Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English
translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti,
and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature
and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility
and style, this volume complements the existing and important works
on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It
makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the
interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an
understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to
contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.
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