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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.
Subjects:	Widows in literature. Widows' writings, Italian > History and criticism. Italian literature > History and criticism. Veuves dans la littérature. Littérature italienne > Histoire et critique.

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