The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
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The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso, and Ariosto. Valeria Finucci shows how ideas of masculinity were formed in the midst of acute anxiety about paternity by...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822330652
ISBN13:9780822330653
Release Date:March 2003
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"
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