Widow city : gender, emotion, and community in the Italian Renaissance /

"Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteen...

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Main Author: Wainwright, Anna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2025]
Series:Early modern exchange.
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505 0 |a Dante, Petrarch, and the ethics of widowhood -- Boccaccio's many merry widows -- Sacred role models from Judith and Anna to Birgitta of Sweden -- Dido, death, and exemplarity : public widowhood from Petrarch to Vittoria Colonna -- Widowed verse : Christine de Pizan, Vittoria Colonna, and Francesca Turina -- "Widowhood for its own sake" : widows in two dialogues of the counter reformation. 
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