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The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Valeria Finucci
The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Valeria Finucci
Intends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto.
320 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 19, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780822330653 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Dimensions | 152 × 235 × 22 mm · 635 g |
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