Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance

PRISTINE CONDITION. COLLECTORS ITEM An insightful collection of scholarly essays exploring the roles, representation, and experiences of women in Renaissance Italy. Refiguring Woman brings together leading historians, literary scholars, and art historians to examine how gender shaped social, political, religious, and cultural life during one of Europe's most influential historical periods. Through interdisciplinary research, the contributors reassess traditional interpretations of the Italian Renaissance, highlighting women's participation as patrons, artists, writers, intellectuals, and members of both elite and everyday society. The volume also investigates how women were represented in Renaissance art and literature, offering fresh perspectives on identity, power, education, family, and cultural ideals. An important contribution to Renaissance studies and gender history, this volume is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and collectors interested in Italian history, women's studies, art history, literary criticism, and early modern Europe. …