Redreaming the Renaissance : essays on history and literature in honor of Guido Ruggiero / edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindemann, Mary, editor.

Shemek, Deanna, editor.

Series:

The Early Modern Exchange Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--15th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Italian literature--16th century--History and criticism.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Literature and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2024]

Summary:

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only belles lettres, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume’s dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Redreaming the Renaissance / Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek

Part I: Visions

1. Reflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari's Lives / Douglas Biow

2. Dream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento / Alessandro Arcangeli

3. Bianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile's Teagene and The Tale of Tales / Suzanne Magnanini

Part II: Passions

4. Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives / Joanne M. Ferraro

5. Giovanni's Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy / Paula Findlen

6. Tullia d'Aragona's Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Julia L. Hairston

Part III: Dramas

7. Playing with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage / Konrad Eisenbichler

8. Tarquinia Molza and "Le cose del cielo": Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy / Meredith K. Ray

9. Women, Opera, and Onestà in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Courtney Quaintance

Part IV: Methods

10. The Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto's Last Proems of 1516 / Albert Russell Ascoli

11. Microhistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography / Nicholas Terpstra

12. News in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information / Massimo Rospocher

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-64453-339-1

OCLC:

1451803039