Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Widowhood and the tre corone
6. 1 Dante, Petrarch, and the Ethics of Widowhood 19
7. 2 Boccaccio’s Many Merry Widows 34
8. Part II Context: Model Widows, Holy and Historical
9. 3 Sacred Role Models from Judith and Anna to Birgitta of Sweden 53
10. 4 Dido, Death, and Exemplarity: Public Widowhood from Petrarch to Vittoria Colonna 75
11. Part III The Widow’s Voice
12. 5 Widowed Verse: Christine de Pizan, Vittoria Colonna, and Francesca Turina 103
13. 6 “Widowhood for Its Own Sake”: Widows in Two Dialogues of the Counter-Reformation 122
14. Epilogue 141
15. Notes 147
16. Bibliography 183
17. Index 203
18. About the Author 208