Motherhood and patriarchal masculinities in sixteenth-century Italian comedy
Introduction: feminine fatherhood? -- What is a mother's worth? the negotiation of motherhood and virtù in Machiavelli's La mandragola (1518) -- Replacing the father negotiating motherhood and the battle for authority in Machiavelli's Clizia (1525) -- Prescribing the ideal mother in t...
| Summary: | Introduction: feminine fatherhood? -- What is a mother's worth? the negotiation of motherhood and virtù in Machiavelli's La mandragola (1518) -- Replacing the father negotiating motherhood and the battle for authority in Machiavelli's Clizia (1525) -- Prescribing the ideal mother in the discourse of humanism and Antonio Landi's Il commodo (1539) -- The father-son conflict and the dysfunction of fatherhood in Giovan Maria Cecchi's La stiava (1546) and Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi (1509) -- Conclusion: motherhood as the of masculine identity's object of desire |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1409434400 |