ARMS AND THE WOMAN: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance
Title Page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
VIRGIL AND THE VENETO
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VENICE AND WOMEN
NEGOTIATION AND SUBVERSION
AN EXAMPLE OF CRITICISM FROM LUCREZIA MARINELLA
WORKS UNDER STUDY AND STRUCTURE OF THE MONOGRAPH
PART I: Female Fighters: On Women, War, and Pietas
CHAPTER 1: Lady Knights and Pietas
TRUNCATED STORIES
FIGHTING LIKE A MAN: THE DUEL BETWEEN RISAMANTE AND MACANDRO
TWIN STORIES
BRUTAL ENDINGS AND THEIR CRITICS
FONTE AND HER “SOURCES”
CHAPTER 2: Women and Compassion
WOMEN’S WORTH IN THE FLORIDORO AND MERITO
MARINELLA’S AMAZONS
THE DUEL BETWEEN CLAUDIA AND MEANDRA
PART II: Lovers at War: Virgil, Ovid, and Resistance
CHAPTER 3: Epic and Elegy
NOT-SO-MINOR THREADS: STORIES OF WOMEN
ABANDONED WOMEN: OVID VERSUS ARISTOTLE
CHAPTER 4: Love and Lamentation
STORMS, APOSTROPHE, AND LAMENTATION
REUNIONS AND MIRACLES
OVID’S HEROIDES AND ELEGIAC IDENTITIES
THE TWIN STORY OF ARETA AND CORRADINO
BURIALS
THE WORTH OF WIVES
PART III: Women in the Garden: Enchantresses Erina and Circetta
CHAPTER 5: Ancient and Modern Prototypes
CALYPSO, CIRCE, NAUSICAA, DIDO, AND ERINA
WOMEN AND THE LOCUS AMOENUS
CHAPTER 6: Away from the City
A MAGIC CHARIOT RIDE
THE WORLD FROM AFAR
PEACEFUL ISLANDS AND TREACHEROUS CITIES
VENIER’S LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER 7: Fonte’s Enchantress and Beyond
EPILOGUE
UNDER THE SIGN OF FICTION: PIETAS AND THE ENDING OF THE ENRICO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CLASSICAL MEMORIES/MODERN IDENTITIES: Paul Allen Miller and Richard H. Armstrong, Series Editors