Lucrezia Marinella and the "querelle des femmes" in seventeenth-century Italy / Paola Malpezzi Price and Christine Ristaino.

Author/creator Malpezzi Price, Paola, 1948-
Other author Ristaino, Christine, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2008.
Description204 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Renaissance society, the female intellectual, and Lucrezia Marinella -- Arcadia felice and the limits of Renaissance female authorship -- Amore innamorato, et impazzato and Ersilia's allegorical quest -- Marinella's religious poetry and the male and female spiritual journey -- The epic woman: L'Enrico ovvero bisanzio acquistato -- La nobiltà et eccellenza delle donne and the new public woman -- The paradoxical conflict of Lucrezia Marinella: Essortationi alle donne et a gli altri, se a loro saranno a grado.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 178-195) and index.
LCCN 2007028414
ISBN9780838641224 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838641229 (alk. paper)