Sexualities, textualities, art and music in early modern Italy : playing with boundaries /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
Description:xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9980484
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Other uniform titles:Marshall, Melanie L.,
Carroll, Linda L.,
McIver, Katherine A., 1949-
McIver, Katherine A., 1949- Performing sexuality.
ISBN:9781409464686 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409464687 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Playing with boundaries / Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll, and Katherine A. McIver
  • Performing sexuality. Visual pleasures, sensual sounds: music, morality, and sexuality in paintings by Titian / Katherine A. McIver
  • Galeotto fu la metafora: language and sex in Boccaccio's Decameron / Catherine Baxter
  • Balla la mona e salta il babuino: performing obscenity in a musical dialogue / Paul Schleuse
  • The erotics of religion. Sexuality and depictions of the female saint in medieval Tuscany / Catherine Lawless
  • Leonine lasciviousness and Luther / Anthony Cummings
  • The Roman church and sexuality: some notes on prelates and regular clergy in sixteenth/seventeenth century Italian courts / Flavio Rurale
  • Images of country life, realistic and artistic. Tradition and gender transgression: the iconography of the shepherd couple in Venetian pastoral landscape during the sixteenth century / Christophe Brouard
  • (El) ge sa bon laorare: female wealth, male competition, musical festivities, and the Venetian patriciate in Ruzante's Pavan / Linda L. Carroll
  • Farò quel che mi piacerà: fictional women in villotta voice resistance / Melanie L. Marshall.