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The renaissance of marriage in fifteenth-century Italy / Anthony F. D'Elia.
LIBRA HQ629 .D45 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Elia, Anthony F., 1967-
- Series:
- Harvard historical studies ; v. 146.
- Harvard historical studies ; 146
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Marriage.
- Marriage customs and rites--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Wedding speeches--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Wedding speeches.
- Humanism--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Humanism.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Courts and courtiers.
- History.
- Italy.
- Italy--Court and courtiers.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 262 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Marriage and wisdom from antiquity to the renaissance
- The revival of the ancient epithalamium in courtly weddings
- Weddings as propaganda: rhetoric and court culture
- The culture of marriage and sex in Italian courts
- Humanist criticisms of celibacy and the reformation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674015525
- OCLC:
- 56592285
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