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Author Finucci, Valeria, author.

Title The manly masquerade : masculinity, paternity, and castration in the Italian Renaissance / Valeria Finucci
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: Body and Generation in the EarlyModern Period -- Chapter 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births -- Chapter 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby Male in Machiavelli's La mandragola -- Chapter 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata -- Chapter 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso -- Chapter 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria -- Chapter 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato
Summary Analyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index
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Subject Masculinity -- Italy -- History
Paternity -- Italy -- History
Castration -- Italy -- History
Castration -- history
Gender Identity -- history
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
Castration
Masculinity
Paternity
Männlichkeit
Geschlechtergeschichte
Renaissance
Mannelijkheid.
Vaderschap.
Voortplanting (biologie)
Masculinité
Paternité
Castration.
Homme.
Reproduction humaine.
Renaissance.
Histoire.
Aspect religieux.
Aspect médical.
Italy
Italien
Italie.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822384472
0822384477
1283064405
9781283064408
9786613064400
6613064408