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Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
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Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
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Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women
in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world
of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social
and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth
to the early eighteenth century. Beneath the frivolous exterior of
such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and seduction,
there often lay a lively contest for power and agency, and the
opportunity for conventional women to demonstrate their intellect,
to achieve a public identity, and even to model new behaviour and
institutions in the non-ludic world. By tapping into the records
and cultural artifacts of these games, George McClure recovers a
realm of female fame that has largely escaped the notice of modern
historians, and in so doing, reveals a cohort of spirited,
intellectual women outside of the courts.
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