{"product_id":"the-manly-masquerade-9780822330653","title":"The Manly Masquerade","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Valeria Finucci’s book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less ‘luminous’ aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture.\"—Armando Maggi, author of \u003ci\u003eSatan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians—and still hold for us.”—Walter Stephens, author of \u003ci\u003eDemon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's\u003ci\u003e La mandragola\u003c\/i\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's \u003ci\u003eGerusalemme liberata\u003c\/i\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's \u003ci\u003eOrlando furioso\u003c\/i\u003e 159\u003cbr\u003e 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's \u003ci\u003eLa calandria\u003c\/i\u003e 189\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 281\u003cbr\u003e Index 307","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406032085335,"sku":"9780822330653","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822330653.jpg?v=1730494309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-manly-masquerade-9780822330653","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}