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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.

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Author:   Mary Lindemann ,  Deanna Shemek ,  Douglas G. Biow ,  Alessandro Arcangeli
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781644533376

ISBN 10:   1644533375
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   17 May 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Redreaming the Renaissance: Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek Part I Visions Reflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari’s Lives 21: Douglas Biow Dream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento: Alessandro Arcangeli Bianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile’s Teagene and The Tale of Tales: Suzanne Magnanini Part II Passions Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives: Joanne Ferraro Giovanni’s Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy: Paula Findlen Tullia d’Aragona’s Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Julia L. Hairston Part III Dramas Playing with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage: Konrad Eisenbichler Tarquinia Molza and “Le cose del cielo”: Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy: Meredith K. Ray Women, Opera, and Onestà in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Courtney Quaintance Part IV Methods The Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto’s Last Proems of 1516: Albert Russell Ascoli Microhistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography: Nicholas Terpstra News in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information: Massimo Rospocher Contributors Index

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MARY LINDEMANN is professor emerita of history, University of Miami. Her most recent books include: Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (2006), Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (2nd ed., 2009), and The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 (2015). She is currently writing a book on the wars of the mid to late seventeenth century and especially their aftermath in Brandenburg. DEANNA SHEMEK is professor of Italian and European studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (1998) and of In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of Letters (2021). She has coedited numerous volumes, including Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara (2005), Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives (2008), and Itinera chartarum: 150 anni dell’Archivio di Stato di Mantova (2019). She co-directs IDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive, an online project for study of the Italian Renaissance.

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