Parlour games and the public life of women in Renaissance Italy /

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centur...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: McClure, George W., 1951- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press [2013]
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjvcg
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • The Renaissance Theory of Play
  • The Academy of the Intronati and Sienese Women (1525-1555)
  • The Games of Girolamo and Scipione Bargagli (1563-1569)
  • Fortunes, Medals, Emblems : The Public Face of Private Women
  • The Birth of the Assicurate: Italy's First Female Academy (1654-1704)
  • Girolamo Gigli: The Legacy of the Sienese Games and Sienese Women.