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Boccaccio's heroines : power and virtue in Renaissance society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Margaret Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
Series:Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subjects:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > De mulieribus claris.
Women > Biography.
Women in literature.
Women > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Table of Contents:
  • Text and its critics
  • Lauds and libraries
  • The art of virtue
  • Authorial intent
  • Dedication : the nature of virtue
  • Preface : a book for men about women
  • A bad example
  • Overstepping the boundaries
  • Action/reaction
  • Dangerous minds and bodies
  • Calculated anomalies
  • Famous women in Renaissance Tuscany
  • Boccaccio's heroines
  • A woman's place
  • Daring but decorous : donne illustri in the art of the Tuscan republics
  • Famous women and famous women : Boccaccio and the court consorts
  • Eleonora d'Aragona d'Este
  • Isabella d'Este and Mantegna.
  • 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
  • Boccaccio's heroines
  • Woman's place
  • Daring but decorous
  • Famous women and famous women
  • Eleonora d'Aragona d'Este
  • Isabella d'Este and Mantegna.