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Beasts and beauties : animals, gender, and domestication in the Italian renaissance

Title: Beasts and beauties : animals, gender, and domestication in the Italian renaissance / Juliana Schiesari.
Author: Schiesari, Juliana.
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.

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Description

xii, 157 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Beasts & beauties

Subject

1450-1600
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
Animals and civilization
Families
Human-animal relationships
Humanism
Patriarchy
Women > Renaissance
Hemmet > Italien > renässansen
Kvinnorollen
Djur
Hierarkier
Home, the > Italy > Renaissance
Female role
Animals
Hierarchies
Familjer > historia > Italien > renässansen
Kvinnor > historia > Italien > renässansen
Patriarkat > historia > Italien > renässansen
Djur och människor > historia > Italien > renässansen
Sällskapsdjur > historia > Italien > renässansen
Djur i konsten > genusaspekter > historia > Italien > renässansen
Djur i litteraturen > genusaspekter > historia > Italien > renässansen
Italy

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-147) and index.

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 -- Pyschoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism -- Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography.

ISBN

9780802099228
080209922X

LCCN

2010286233

OCLC

ocn429726259
429726259
SCSB-14701470

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library