On the beauty of women / Agnolo Firenzuola ; translated and edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Firenzuola, Agnolo, 1493-1543.

Contributor:

Eisenbichler, Konrad.

Murray, Jacqueline.

Standardized Title:

Discorsi delle bellezze delle donne. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminine beauty--Fiction.

Feminine beauty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created beauty.Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray have provided the first translation into English of Firenzuola's dialogue since the nineteenth century. In their introduction, they argue that Firenzuola's work presents a useful point of entry into the society and values of the mid-sixteenth century. In its discussion of beauty, the dialogue reveals the intersection of Neoplantonic philosophy and mathematically based artistic theory, both inherited from classical antiquity. Indeed, Firenzuola's treatise has been assessed as one of the most significant expositions of Renaissance aesthetics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Bibliography

Proem

First Dialogue

Second Dialogue

Notes to the Proem

Notes to the First Dialog

Notes to the Second Dialogue

Index

Notes:

Fictional dialogues.

Translation of: Discorsi delle bellezze delle donne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9786613211040

9781283211048

1283211041

9780812200577

0812200578

OCLC:

759158189