Humanism, Venice, and women : essays on the Italian Renaissance /
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| Author / Creator: | King, Margaret L., 1947- |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005. |
| Description: | 1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Variorum collected studies series ; 802 Collected studies ; CS802. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5642081 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Humanism and the Transmission of Values
- The Venetian Case
- The social role of intellectuals
- Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance
- Humanism in Venice
- L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento
- Part II. Caldiera, Marcello, and the Barbaros
- Social Issues and Humanist Thought in Venice
- Personal, domestic and republican values in the moral philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera
- Caldiera and the Barbaros on marriage and the family: humanist reflections of Venetian realities
- An inconsolable father and his humanist consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian nobleman, patron, and man of letters
- Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the war for the Lombard plain
- Part III. Renaissance Women And Renaissance Culture
- Thwarted ambitions: six learned women of the Renaissance
- The religious retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-66): sexism and its consequences in the 15th century
- Goddess and captive: Antonio Loschi's epistolary tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389)
- Book-lined cells: women and humanism in the early Italian Renaissance
- Mothers of the Renaissance
- Index
