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Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy »

Authors: Deanna Shemek, Deanna Shemek, Shemek
ISBN-13: 9780822321675, ISBN-10: 082232167X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Deanna Shemek

Deanna Shemek is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Book Synopsis

Examines gender relations in early modern Italy, focusing on ways women escaped the social constraints prescribed for them during the 15th and 16th centuries. Shemek examines a variety of social phenomena of this period, including the run by prostitutes

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Circular Definitions: Configuring Gender in Italian Renaissance Festival	17
2	That Elusive Object of Desire: Angelica in the Orlando Furioso	45
3	Gender, Duality, and the Sacrifices of History: Bradamante in the Orlando Furioso	77
4	Getting a Word in Edgewise: Laura Terracina's Discorsi on the Orlando Furioso	126
5	From Insult to Injury: Bandello's Tales of Isabella de Luna	158
App. 1	Matteo Bandello, Novelle, part II, novella 51	181
App. 2	Matteo Bandello, Novelle, part IV, novella 16	187
	Notes	191
	Index	249