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This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria
Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian
Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in
the Italian Reform movement. Until recently best known for her
close spiritual friendship with Michelangelo, she is increasingly
recognized as a powerful and distinctive poetic voice, a cultural
and religious icon, and an important literary model for both men
and women. This volume comprises compelling new research by
established and emerging scholars in the fields of literature, book
history, religious history, and art history, including several
studies of Colonna's influence during the Counter-Reformation, a
period long neglected by Italian cultural historiography. The
Colonna who emerges from this new reading is one who challenges
traditional constructions of women's place in Italian literature:
no mere imitator or follower, but an innovator and founder of
schools in her own right.
A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the
European Renaissance. Â Teaching Race in the European
Renaissance: A Classroom Guide provides both educators and students
the tools they need to discuss race in the European Renaissance
both in its unique historical contexts and as part of a broader
continuum with racial thinking today. The volume gathers scholars
of the English, French, Italian, and Iberian Renaissances to
provide exercises, lesson plans, methodologies, readings, and other
resources designed to bring discussions of race into a broad
spectrum of classes on the early modern period, from literature to
art history to the history of science. This book is designed to
help educators create more diverse and inclusive syllabi and
curricula that engage and address a diverse,
twenty-first-century student body composed of students from a
growing variety of cultural, national, ethnic, and racial
backgrounds. By providing clear, concise, and diverse methodologies
and analytical focuses, Teaching Race in the European Renaissance:
A Classroom Guide will help educators in all areas of Renaissance
Studies overcome the anxiety and fear that can come with stepping
outside of their expertise to engage with the topic of race, while
also providing expert scholars of race in the Renaissance with new
techniques and pedagogies to enhance the classroom experience of
their students.
A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the
European Renaissance. Â Teaching Race in the European
Renaissance: A Classroom Guide provides both educators and students
the tools they need to discuss race in the European Renaissance
both in its unique historical contexts and as part of a broader
continuum with racial thinking today. The volume gathers scholars
of the English, French, Italian, and Iberian Renaissances to
provide exercises, lesson plans, methodologies, readings, and other
resources designed to bring discussions of race into a broad
spectrum of classes on the early modern period, from literature to
art history to the history of science. This book is designed to
help educators create more diverse and inclusive syllabi and
curricula that engage and address a diverse,
twenty-first-century student body composed of students from a
growing variety of cultural, national, ethnic, and racial
backgrounds. By providing clear, concise, and diverse methodologies
and analytical focuses, Teaching Race in the European Renaissance:
A Classroom Guide will help educators in all areas of Renaissance
Studies overcome the anxiety and fear that can come with stepping
outside of their expertise to engage with the topic of race, while
also providing expert scholars of race in the Renaissance with new
techniques and pedagogies to enhance the classroom experience of
their students.
The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation,
which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture,
maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age
in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the
Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been
mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The
thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian
Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of
literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular
attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature,
the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with
religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate
that the literature of this period not only merits study but is
positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics
as Virginia Cox and Amedeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on
the Italian Counter-Reformation. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to
rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social
spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of
established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry.
Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have
often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind
us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what
has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern
Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of
interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and
sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian
literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their
pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies
and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future
directions in these fields.
The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation,
which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture,
maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age
in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the
Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been
mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The
thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian
Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of
literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular
attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature,
the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with
religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate
that the literature of this period not only merits study but is
positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics
as Virginia Cox and Amedeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on
the Italian Counter-Reformation. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
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