Schiesari, Juliana. <br/><br/>
Beasts and beauties  animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance / 
 Beasts & beauties 
Juliana Schiesari. 
 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2010). 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages :  illustrations, portraits) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>'Jewels of women' : ladies, laps, and lapdogs in Renaissance culture --  Portrait of the poet as a dog : Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 --  Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'art' of domination --  Della Porta's face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others --  Psychoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism --  Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography. 
<br/><br/> Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442697881 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families--History--Italy--16th century.<br/>Patriarchy--History--Italy--16th century.<br/>Human-animal relationships--History--Italy--16th century.<br/>Animals and civilization--History--Italy--16th century.<br/>Women--History--Italy--Renaissance, 1450-1600.<br/>Humanism--History--Italy--16th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ630  / .B437 2010