{"product_id":"italys-eighteenth-century-9780804759045","title":"Italys Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eItaly's Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e] moves us toward a more richly textured sense of the political, geographic, and cultural diversity that comprised the Italian peninsula in the eighteenth century. Filled with original work and suggestions for new avenues for future research, the book reminds us how much remains to be unearthed about this remarkable period.\"—Sarah Betzer, \u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Women and men as agents of public and private sociability in a 'lost' century of Italian culture constitute the primary theme of \u003ci\u003eItaly's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour\u003c\/i\u003e. Findlen's introductory essay is required reading for enlightenment specialists as it raises and quashes about the Italian eighteenth century, by countering them with exemplary scholarship heretofore unknown outside of Italy.\"—Clorinda Donato, \u003ci\u003eNew Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The perspective on and variety of the characters introduced in this volume are quite extraordinary\"—Melissa Calaresu, \u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dullards and prudes stay home: \u003ci\u003eItaly's 18th Century: Gender and Culture During the Age of the Grand Tour\u003c\/i\u003e is a seductive gondola-trip through the world of Casanova and Da Ponte, courtesans and \u003ci\u003ecastrati\u003c\/i\u003e, painters, Popes, and learned ladies—the whole louche, lubricious, and luminous fantasia that was \u003ci\u003esettecento\u003c\/i\u003e Italy. Whether scholar, student, or armchair 'Grand Tourist,' the curious reader will find rich bounty here: both a superb general introduction to Italy in the Age of Enlightenment and a sleek, multifaceted analysis of its role—aesthetic, psychic, and erotic—in the eighteenth-century European imagination.\"—Terry Castle, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection of essays presents a vast amount of new research that offers us a picture of the rich and varied culture of eighteenth-century Italy and its relation to Enlightenment Europe. Replete with interconnections, the essays fit together as neatly as a puzzle, and where they overlap, they often provide different perspectives on the same subject.\"—Carole Paul, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:List of Illustrations\txxx  Acknowledgments\txxx  @toc2:Introduction: Gender and Culture in Eighteenth-  Century Italy\t1  @tocca:Paula Findlen  @toc1:PART ONE\tGENDER AND PUBLIC LIFE  @toc2:1. Cicisbei: Italian Morality and European Values in   the Eighteenth Century\t000  @tocca:Roberto Bizzocchi  @toc2:2. The Temple of Female Glory: Female Self-  Affirmation in the Roman Salon of the Grand Tour\t000  @tocca:Maria Pia Donato  @toc2:3. Giustina Renier Michiel and Conflicting Ideas of   Gender in Late Eighteeenth-Century Venice\t000  @tocca:Susan Dalton  @toc1:PART TWO\tWOMEN AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS  @toc2:4. Revisiting Arcadia: Women and Academies in   Eighteenth-Century Italy\t000  @tocca:Elisabetta Graziosi  @toc2:5. \"On the Canvas and on the Page\": Women Shaping   Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice\t000  @tocca:Catherine M. Sama  @toc2:6. \"The Residence of the Arts\": Angelica Kauffman's   Place in Rome\t000  @tocca:Wendy Wassyng Roworth  @toc1:PART THREE\tENLIGHTENED SEXUALITIES  @toc2:7. Strange Births and Surprising Kin: The Castrato's   Tale\t000  @tocca:Martha Feldman  @toc2:8.Sex Without Sex: An Erotic Image of the Castrato   Singer\t000  @tocca:Roger Freitas  @toc2:9. The Anatomy of a Lesbian: Medicine, Pornography,   and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy\t000  @tocca:Paula Findlen  @toc2:10. As Who Dare Gaze the Sun: Anna Morandi   Manzolini's Wax Anatomies of the Male Reproductive System   and Genitalia\t000  @tocca:Rebecca Messbarge  @toc1:PART FOUR: THE SPECTACLE OF GENDER  @toc2:11. Between Modesty and Spectacle: Women and Science   in Eighteenth-Century Italy\t000  @tocca:Marta Cavazza  @toc2:12. \"Monsters of Talent\": Fame and Reputation of   Women Improvisers in Arcadia\t000  @tocca:Paola Giuli  @toc2:13. Gender and Genre in the Religious Art of the   Catholic   Enlightenment\t000  @tocca:Christopher M. S. Johns  @toc4:Notes\t000   Contributors\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405573792087,"sku":"9780804759045","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804759045.jpg?v=1730492885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italys-eighteenth-century-9780804759045","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}