Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. 1 Introduction 13
6. 2 Widows, Poetry, and Portraits : Livia Spinola and Francesca Turina on the Portraits of their Dead Husbands 43
7. 3 In Medusa’s Eyes : Petrification and Marble Portraits in Late Sixteenth- Century Poetry 63
8. 4 The Portrait of the Ideal Woman : Petrarch in Conduct Literature Texts for and about Women 85
9. 5 Anti-Petrarchist Portraiture or a Different Petrarchist Portraiture? A Literary Outlook on Some Non-Idealised Female Sitters in Renaissance Art 105
10. 6 The Shadow of Petrarch: Benedetto Varchi and Agnolo Bronzino on Portraiture 129
11. 7 Double Portraits of Petrarch and Laura in Print (c. 1544–1600) 157
12. 8 Sonnet ‘Diptychs’ and Double Portraits : Figurative Allusions in Sixteenth-Century Encomiastic Poetry 181
13. 9 Images of Women from Subject to Frame in Printed Portrait Books 213
14. Bibliography 241
15. Index 271