The renaissance of marriage in fifteenth-century Italy / Anthony F. D'Elia.

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 customs and rites--Italy--History--To 1500.
• Wedding speeches--Italy--History--To 1500.
• Humanism--Italy--History--To 1500.
• Renaissance--Italy.
• Renaissance.
• Courts and courtiers.
• Humanism.
• History.
• Wedding speeches.
• Marriage customs and rites.
• Marriage.
• 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