Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Redreaming the Renaissance 1
6. Part I Visions
7. 1 Reflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari’s Lives 19
8. 2 Dream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento 48
9. 3 Bianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile’s Teagene and The Tale of Tales 67
10. Part II Passions
11. 4 Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives 93
12. 5 Giovanni’s Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy 117
13. 6 Tullia d’Aragona’s Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy 146
14. Part III Dramas
15. 7 Playing with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage 167
16. 8 Tarquinia Molza and “Le cose del cielo”: Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy 192
17. 9 Women, Opera, and Onestà in Seventeenth-Century Rome 215
18. Part IV Methods
19. 10 The Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto’s Last Proems of 1516 239
20. 11 Microhistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography 261
21. 12 News in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information 281
22. Contributors 307
23. Index 313