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High-quality works like D'Alessandro Behr's . . . are important steps towards making women more visible in the history of Classical scholarship. As D'Alessandro Behr argues for the authors covered in this volume, the classical tradition can offer women the opportunity to challenge the values of their society through a rich shared vocabulary of images and ideas. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review Arms and the Woman is a very worthwhile addition to the literature on Fonte's and Marinella's epic poems, one that attests to their importance and to the significance of reception theory. It reveals the long-lasting impact of classical antiquity, and it casts crucial light on early modern texts. --Maria Galli Stampino, author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater

Arms and the Woman is a very worthwhile addition to the literature on Fonte's and Marinella's epic poems, one that attests to their importance and to the significance of reception theory. It reveals the long-lasting impact of classical antiquity, and it casts crucial light on early modern texts. --Maria Galli Stampino, author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater

Arms and the Woman is a very worthwhile addition to the literature on Fonte's and Marinella's epic poems, one that attests to their importance and to the significance of reception theory. It reveals the long-lasting impact of classical antiquity, and it casts crucial light on early modern texts. --Maria Galli Stampino, author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater High-quality works like D'Alessandro Behr's . . . are important steps towards making women more visible in the history of Classical scholarship. As D'Alessandro Behr argues for the authors covered in this volume, the classical tradition can offer women the opportunity to challenge the values of their society through a rich shared vocabulary of images and ideas. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review Francesca D'Alessandro Behr brilliantly contributes to the scholarship on Italian Renaissance [epics]....This book launches a new season for Italian gender and renaissance studies, with regard to women's representation of and through violence and war, a season firmly rooted in the previous scholarship (e.g. Cox, Stoppino, Finucci, Ross), but one that contributes with both innovative thoughts and methodologies, and texts and figures that are still mostly understudied. --Lucia Gemmani, gender/sexuality/italy

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Francesca D'Alessandro Behr is Associate Professor of Classics and Italian Studies at the University of Houston and author of Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion (OSU Press, 2007).

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