The Gendering of Melancholia: Torquato Tasso and Isabella di Morra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. THE HERMENEUTICS OF GENDER
6. Inter musam et ursam moritur: Folengo and the Gaping “Other” Mouth 19
7. Patriarchal Ideology in the Renaissance Iconography of Judith 35
8. The Visual Language of Gender in Sixteenth-Century Garden Sculpture 71
9. Chastity on the Page: A Feminist Use of Paleography 114
10. II. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER
11. “The Most Serious Duty”: Motherhood, Gender, and Patrician Culture in Renaissance Venice 133
12. Funerals and the Politics of Gender in Early Renaissance Florence 155
13. No Longer Virgins: Self-Presentation by Young Women in Late Renaissance Rome 169
14. Economy, Woman, and Renaissance Discourse 192
15. III. WOMAN AND THE CANON
16. The Dignity of Man: A Feminist Perspective 211
17. The Gendering of Melancholia: Torquato Tasso and Isabella di Morra 233
18. New Songs for the Swallow: Ovid’s Philomela in Tullia d’Aragona and Gaspara Stampa 263
19. Contributors 279
20. Index 281