Textual masculinity and the exchange of women in Renaissance Venice /Courtney Quaintance.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781442619524
- Italian poetry -- Male authors -- History and criticism
- Italian poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
- Masculinity in literature
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) in literature
- Women in literature
- Sex in literature
- Women and literature -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
- Salons -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
- Renaissance -- Italy -- Venice
- PQ4129 .T498 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Based on archival work and Quaintance's exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the Whore in Renaissance Venice; Textual Masculinity; Puttana, Meretrice, Cortigiana: What's in a Name?; Writing the Courtesan; Prostitutes, Pimps, and Bullies: Venetian Literature "alla bulesca"; Textual Masculinity and Literary Fraternity; 1 Gang Rape and Literary Fame; La puttana errante: The Whore-Errant between Men; La Zaffetta: Rape as Literary Fraternity; Angela Zaffetta, cortigiana da vero; Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Fame; 2 Fictional Ladies and Literary Fraternity.
Academies, Salons, and Other Sodalities in Sixteenth-Century VeniceThe Virtual Salon; Petrarchan Praise and Literary Fraternity; 3 The Erotics of Venetian Dialect; The Uses of Dialect; Ogni saor: The Flavours of Dialect; "Bella istoria": Helena Artusi, Dialect Whore; Angelic Whores and Homoerotic Triangles; 4 Dialect and Homosociality from Manuscript to Print; "Rime in lingua veneziana di diversi"; La caravana: An Anthology of Pleasure; Versi alla venitiana; 5 Women Writers between Men: Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco; Stampa, Franco, and the Sexual Politics of Venetian Literary Culture.
Gaspara StampaStampa as Literary Organizer; Veronica Franco; Poetry, Prostitution, and the Currency of Collaboration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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