... convents, usually ones with no family connections, demonstrating a preference for postmortem association not with family but with a community of celibate women. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 noble Italian women and gender death and burial early modern wills and inheritance...

... appeared as an example of vice, immorality, and extravagance. Prudhomme insisted that Marie had engaged in extramarital liaisons with her Italian favorites, echoing charges against Marie-Antoinette in the libertine literature.86 Marie-Antoinette became the heir of all these women by proximity...

..., literature and rhet- oric, gender, sexuality, and marriage. One story cannot be told fully without reference to others. The same men who forged the canon of medieval and early modern Italian literature helped to orchestrate relationships between Italian city states and between those states...

... of spiritual salvation. When her father reminds her that if she were to go home with him she would be served by noble women, mar- ried well, and eventually inherit his “opulent estate,” she retorts — again, in Italian — that she wishes not to “depart from the salvation of the soul, that she is a noble...

... lies beneath.26 Household account books reveal that in the late fifteenth and sixteenth century, Italian tailors increas- ingly fitted garments to the body and were central to the process of dressing. They introduced new styles according to gender differences and helped to shape and influence...

...” in Middle Englsih Allegory. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Colum- bus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. xi, 225 pp. $44.95. Ray, Meredith K. Writing Gender in Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. x, 362 pp. $75.00...

... Dukes” (233r/285).15 Outside Italy, it is possible, Vecellio says, that the increase in travel throughout Europe can have positive effects, as in the case of German noble- men who have learned how to dress elegantly at Italian courts: The clothing of German princes and lords consists...

... was a favorite rhetorical strategy by Hrotsvit’s near con- temporary historiographer of Otto’s reign, the Italian Luitprand of Cremona (d. 972). In his colorful account of an ill-fated diplomatic mission to Constantinople on Otto’s behalf, he pokes fun at the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus...

... nonetheless reflects an alter- native voice. In the century and half after Vesalius, both Mercurio’s text and the widespread resistance of Italian midwives to greater regulation of their practice are reflective of the ways in which gender and anatomy were central to debates over who could read...

...: SISMEL: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. vi, 392 pp. Paper eur 51.00. [Latin text with facing-­page Italian translation.] Dalby, Andrew, trans. and ed. Geoponika: Farm Work; A Modern Transla- tion of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook. Totnes, Devon: Pros- pect Books, 2011. 368 pp. ₤30.00. Dante...

... Cannibalism  161 Figure 2. Bartolomeo degli Erri and workshop, Miracle of the Chopped-­Up Baby (detail). Photo courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 162  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.1 / 2015 miracle of Vincent Ferrer indicates that fifteenth-­century Italians...

..., 422 pp. Volume 2, Books 3 – 4: 490 pp. Each vol. $29.95. Scappi, Bartolomeo. The “Opera” of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L’arte et prudenza d’un maestro Cuoco. Translated and edited by Terence Scully. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (2008) 2011. vii...

... and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-­Century France (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987). 7 See Francesca Trivellato, “Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History California Italian Studies 2, no. 1 (2011), at escholarship.org/uc/item /0z94n9hq. 8 A small...

.... Paper $19.95. Della Porta, Giovan Battista. De Aeris Transmutationibus. Edited by Alfonso Paolella. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovan Battista della Porta, vol. 14. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2000. xlii, 273 pp. Paper L 48,000...

... Theory in the Late Renaissance [Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura ]. Translated by Ann Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxi, 158 pp. $50.00. 582 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.3 / 2002 Deserps...

... 25.00. Milligan, Gerry. Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xi, 332 pp.; 3 illus. $75.00. 192 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.1 / 2020 6. Islamic studies Bowersock, G. W...

... Simons, “Lesbian (In)visibility in Italian Renaissance Culture: Diana and Other Cases of donna con donna,” in Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History, ed. Whitney Davis (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1994), 81–122. 38 See the distinction between coercive versus allocative resources...

... in the Islamic world, the harems of the Ottoman court in Istanbul contained Christian women of Polish, Greek, Balkan, Armenian, and Italian origins. In the Ottoman house from the mid– fifteenth century onward, the genealogical advantage of choosing slave- concubines to bear the Sultan’s children...

... Chartier.] Aretino, Pietro. Aretino’s Dialogues [Ragionamenti]. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Introduction by Margaret Rosenthal. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xxiv, 397 pp.; 1 chronology. $60.00, paper $29.95. as-Sanūsī, Muhammad ibn Yūsuf...

... by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander, with introduction and notes by John Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2000. xiii, 634 pp.; 1 map. $35.00. [Based on the Italian text of Giorgio Petrocchi (1966–67) facing the translation.] Bennett, Nicola, ed. The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Globe Quartos. New York...