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Organized as a series of engaging, thoroughly contextualized biographies, Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era.
Sommario
Introduction: Hidden Histories
Part One: Politics and Power Brokers
1. Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427-1482): Medici Matriarch
2. Caterina Sforza (c. 1463-1509): Countess, Warrior, Alchemist
3. Isabella d'Este (1474-1539): Diplomat and Tastemaker
4. Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519): Entrepreneur from Italy's Most Controversial Family
5. Bona Sforza (1494-1557): Italian Queen of Poland
Part Two: Poets, Reformers, and Courtesans
6. Vittoria Colonna (1490?-1547): Divine Poet, Michelangelo's Mentor
7 Lucrezia Gonzaga (1522-1576): Epistolary Icon and Religious Dissident
8 Olimpia Morata (1526-1555): Humanist and Heretic
9 Laura Terracina (1519-c.1577): Bestselling Author, Defender of Women
10. Veronica Franco (1546-1591): Celebrity Courtesan
Part Three: Musicians, Composers, and Performers
11. Gaspara Stampa (1523-1544): Renaissance Sappho
12. Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617): Virtuosa and Philosopher
13. Isabella Andreini (1562-1604): Diva of Stage and Page
14. Francesca Caccini (1587-post-1641): Opera's Star at the Medici Court
15. Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677): Trailblazing Composer
Part Four: Artists and Scientists
16. Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532-1625): Portraitist to Kings
17. Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614): Pioneering Professional Artist
18. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656?): Fearless Painter, Feminist Icon
19 Camilla Erculiani (d. post-1584):Pharmacist-Philosopher
20 Margherita Sarrocchi (c. 1560-1617): Reader of the Stars, Galileo's Correspondent
Part Five: Renaissance Feminists
21 Laudomia Forteguerri (1515-1555?): Queer Poet, Civic Hero
22. Moderata Fonte (1555-1592): Visionary of Equality for Women
23 Lucrezia Marinella (1571?-1653): Champion of Women's History
24 Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641): Poet and Polemicist in Venice's Jewish Ghetto
25. Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652): Radical Nun, Feminist Force
Notes and Further Reading
Dates of Reign
Acknowledgments
Index
Info autore
Meredith K. Ray is the Elias Ahuja Professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware, USA. Her books include
Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (2009),
Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (2015), and
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy (2016).
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Organized as a series of engaging, thoroughly contextualized biographies, Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era.
