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This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the
lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western
gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when
a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of
Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this
upheaval exploited Petrarchism's capacity for subjective expression
and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible
of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in
realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first
studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women
together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry's work in
the world. These poets' works challenge the traditional boundaries
drawn around lyric's utility. They show us how poems could be sites
of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are
texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of
shaping it.
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.
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 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 Bolognese nun Diodata Malvasia was presumed to have authored
only one work, The Arrival and the Miraculous Workings of the
Glorious Image of the Virgin (1617). In her recently discovered
second manuscript chronicle, A Brief Discourse on What Occurred to
the Most Reverend Sisters of the Joined Convents of San Mattia and
San Luca (1575), her writing demonstrates active resistance to
Tridentine convent reform. Together, Malvasia's works read as the
bookends to a lifelong crusade on behalf of her convent.
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