Boccaccioʹs heroines : power and virtue in Renaissance society /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Burlington :
Ashgate,
2006
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| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world
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Table of Contents:
- Text and its critics
- Lauds and libraries
- Art of virtue
- Authorial intent
- Dedication: the nature of virtue
- Preface: a book for men about women
- Bad example
- Overstepping the boundaries
- Action/reaction
- Dangerous minds and bodies
- Calculated anomalies
- Famous women in Renaissance Tuscany
- Boccaccioʹs heroines
- Womanʹs place
- Daring but decorous
- Famous women and famous women
- Eleonora dʹAragona dʹEste