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Author Schiesari, Juliana, author.

Title Beasts and beauties : animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance / Juliana Schiesari
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Toronto Italian Studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Contents 'Jewels of women' : ladies, laps, and lapdogs in Renaissance culture -- Portrait of the poet as a dog : Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'art' of domination -- Della Porta's face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others -- Psychoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism -- Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography
Summary Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Families -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Patriarchy -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Human-animal relationships -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Animals and civilization -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Women -- Italy -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
Humanism -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Animals and civilization
Families
Human-animal relationships
Humanism
Patriarchy
Women -- Renaissance
Italy
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010286233
ISBN 9781442697881
1442697881
080209922X
9780802099228
Other Titles Beasts & beauties