The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance - Softcover

Finucci, Valeria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822330652 ISBN 13: 9780822330653

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2003

Synopsis

FINUCCI, V. THE MANLY MASQUERADE. MASCULINITY, PATERNITY, AND CASTRATION IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. DURHAM, NC, 2003, x 316 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Review:

"Valeria Finucci’s book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less ‘luminous’ aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."—Armando Maggi, author of Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology

”Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians—and still hold for us.”—Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

From the Author:

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0822330652
• ISBN 13: 9780822330653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328