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The body in early modern Italy / edited by Julia L. Hairston and Walter Stephens.
LIBRA PQ4053.B64 B63 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body in literature.
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Italian literature--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.
- Italian literature--15th century--History and criticism.
- Italian literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- Human figure in art.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Fetishizing the veil : Petrarch's poetics of rematerialization / Margaret Brose
- The metaphor of the Corpus carcer in Petrarch's Canzoniere and in the lyrical tradition / Luca Marcozzi
- Petrarch's lame leg and the corpus of Cicero : an early crisis of humanism? / Ronald L. Martinez
- Holy autopsies : saintly bodies and medical expertise, 1300-1600 / Katharine Park
- Habeas corpus : demonic bodies in Ficino, Psellus, and Malleus maleficarum / Walter Stephens
- The penis possessed : phallic birds, erotic magic, and sins of the body, ca. 1470-1500 / Anthony Colantuono
- Nymphomaniac matter : the prostitute as metaphor for the body in Italian Renaissance philosophy / Sergius Kodera
- Icons of chastity, Objets d'amour : female Renaissance portrait busts as ambivalent bodies / Jeanette Kohl
- Like a virgin : male fantasies of the body in Orlando furioso / Albert R. Ascoli
- "Di sangue illustre & pellegrino" : the eclipse of the body in the lyric of Tullia d'Aragona / Julia L. Hairston
- The beard in sixteenth-century Italy / Douglas Biow
- Body politics and the tongue in sixteenth-century Venice / Elizabeth Horodowich
- "Sauter et voltiger en l'air" : the art of movement in Late Renaissance Italy and France / Sandra Schmidt
- The double life of St. Sebastian in Renaissance art / Bette Talvacchia
- Body elision : acting out the passion at the Italian Sacri Monti / D. Medina Lasansky.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-413) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801894145
- 080189414X
- OCLC:
- 320697462
- Publisher Number:
- 99939676806
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