385pp / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-7727-2085-6 / $39.95
Edited by Julie D. Campbell & Maria Galli Stampino
“This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in the essays, and the recent critical debates are examined. These translations make available in English a selection of male-authored texts that directly or indirectly elicited the spirited responses of women, for which the volume is aptly entitled ‘In Dialogue.’ A valuable classroom resource, the volume is an important addition to The Other Voice: Toronto series.”
Elissa Weaver – Professor of Italian, Emerita, University of Chicago.
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Julie D. Campbell is professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006). She has edited and translated Isabella Andreini’s La Mirtilla (MRTS, 2002). With Anne R. Larsen, she has co-edited Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Ashgate, 2009).
Maria Galli Stampino is associate professor of Italian and French at the University of Miami. She is the author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso’s Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater (MRTS, 2005). She has edited and translated for The Other Voice: Chicago series Lucrezia Marinella’s Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Introduction, Julie D. Campbell and Maria Galli Stampino
Part 1: Contexts and the Canon
– “Contexts and Canonical Authors”, Julie D. Campbell and Maria Galli Stampino
– “Christian Feminine Virtue in Silvio Antoniano’s Three Books on the Christian Education of Children“, Julie D. Campbell
– “Stefano Guazzo’s Civil conversatione and the querelle des femmes“, Julie D. Campbell
– “Alessandro Piccolomini’s Raffaella: A Parody of Women’s Behaviour and Men’s Dialogues”, Maria Galli Stampino
Part 2: Cases
– “Toquato Tasso: Discourse on Feminine and Womanly Virtue“, Lori J. Ultsch
– “Giuseppe Passi’s Attacks on Women in The Defects of Women“, Suzanne Magnanini with David Lamari
– “Love as Centaur: Rational Man, Animal Woman in Sperone Speroni’s Dialogue on Love“, Janet L. Smarr
– “Francesco Andreini: ‘On Taking a Wife'”, Julie D. Campbell
– “Dishonoring Courtesans in Early Modern Italy: The poesia puttanesca of Anton Francesco Grazzini, Nicolò Franco, and Maffio Venier”, Patrizia Bettella
– “Giulia Bigolina and Pietro Aretino’s Letters“, Christopher Nissen
– “Centrality and Liminality in Bernardino Ochino’s ‘Sermon Preached… on the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalen'”, Maria Galli Stampino
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 35:3 (2012), pp. 119-122. Reviewed by Melinda J. Gough.
Renaissance Quarterly, 65/3 (Fall 2012): 983-985. Reviewed by Julia L. Hairston.
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385pp / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-7727-2085-6 / $39.95
