Article: Medusa's gaze; essays on gender, literature, and aesthetics in the Italian Renaissance; in honor of Robert J. Rodini.(ROMANCE LITERATURES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Gaspara Stampa's Petrarchan commemorations: ...
Annali d'Italianistica;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Cinquecento's dominant ideology, Gaspara Stampa reworked Francis Petrarch's words ... compositions. This essay considers Gaspara Stampa's imitative strategies by analyzing ... By assimilating Petrarch's voice, Gaspara Stampa was able to speak of herself and her ...

Encyclopedia entry: Gaspara Stampa
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      378 words ...Gaspara Stampa , c.1523-1554, Italian poet. Plunged at an early age into the dissipated life of Venetian society, she became renowned for her brilliance and beauty. Her verse, which recounts an unhappy love affair, reflects her feelings of passionate tenderness and anguish.

Article: Conflitto tra carne e spirito: ambiguita neoplatonica nella ...
Italian Culture;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... richiede una nuova figura femminile intellettuale, incarnata nelle poetesse dell'epoca. Un'aura di mistero avvolge Gaspara Stampa, una delle poetesse piu controverse e piu ambigue, ma nello stesso tempo piu affascinanti. Il suo canzoniere, pubblicato ...

Article: Gaspara Stampa and the gender of ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The immense fact of Petrarchism gives Renaissance literature some of its most obvious insignia of continuity and coherence, but we have not been especially resourceful in assessing what they mean or even in keeping track of what they are. There is no circumstantial history of the international

Article: The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art: A ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Hellmut Wohl. The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art: A Reconsideration of Style ... reframing the stylistic history of Italian Renaissance art by questioning generally held ... of the aesthetic standards of the Italian Renaissance. For Wohl, the evidence emphatically ...

Article: Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian ...
The Middle East Journal;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1600, by Rosamond Mack ... Reviewed by Eva R. Hoffman The Italian Renaissance had long been defined as an exclusive ... to Piazza: Islamic Trade and the Italian Renaissance, 1300-1600, contributes to this ...

Article: To Venice with a student mission; YOUR HONOUR Italian ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  September 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... this mean? The high point of the Italian Renaissance took place in the late part of the ... way they teach the history of the Italian Renaissance at Warwick. Ever since the first ... students at Warwick reached the Italian Renaissance period, in the autum n term of ...