Rewriting the Italian novella in counter-reformation Spain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rabell, Carmen
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis, 2003.
Series:	Colección Támesis. Monografías ; 199.
Subjects:	Spanish fiction > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Italian fiction > To 1400 > History and criticism. Italian fiction > 15th century > History and criticism. Novelle > History and criticism. Censorship > Spain > History > 16th century. Censorship > Spain > History > 17th century. Literatura española > Siglo XVI-XVIII > Historía y crítica. Literatura italiana > Hasta 1400 > Historia y crítica. Literatura italiana > Siglo XV > Historia y crítica. Novela > Historia y crítica.

Table of Contents:

The theory of the novella
Francisco de Lugo y Dávila and Francesco Bonciani's forensic readings of Aristotle
Forensic discourse and the novella
The role of law in the Spanish versions of Italian novellas
Buried alive: telling the story of Romeo and Juliet in post-Tridentine Spain
Orbecche and Ardenia: the world upside down
The legend of two friends: changing the face of the body politic
The fictitious case and the Spanish novella
"El celoso extremeño": arguing for and against the legal infancy of women
Narrating the impossible: the resurrection of women
"El andrógino" by Francisco de Lugo y Dávila : speaking from a woman's body.