Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

Antiquity as example : Rome in the time of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo -- The poetics of the collection : Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas" -- Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome -- The virtues of the papal collector : Paul II and Sixtus IV -- Pomponio Leto and the academic garden -- The era of collecting, 1480-1527 -- Epilogue: the sack of Rome and the hanging garden of Cardinal Andrea della Valle -- Catalogue of the collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.

Changing times. Protestants and Catholics in dialogue on images -- The dilemma of naturalism -- Interpreting and narrating the sacred image -- Michelangelo's Last judgment and the failure of the sacred image at midcentury -- The decree and the didactic solution -- The affective response to Trent. Titian : his trip to Rome and after -- Jacopo Tintoretto : sacred narrative and theater -- Federico Barocci : from here to ecstasy -- El Greco : Italy transported to Spain -- Caravaggio : secularizing the sacred, sanctifying the secular -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Decree of the twenty-fifth session of the Council of Trent.

Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel -- Elena Civalelli/Suor Deodata and Mihale/Catterina Šatorivić-- Maria Gozzadini and her daughters-Aissè, Eminè, Catigè.

Chapter One. Contexts: The female writer in context: opportunities, attitudes, models -- Women's writing and the counter-reformation -- Religious writing in post-Tridentine Italy: a poetics of conversion -- Secular writing in post-Tridentine Italy: the new sesualism and the misogynist turn -- Chapter Two. Lyric Verse: Women's lyric output, 1580-1630 -- Pietosi affetti: spiritual lyric and the female poet -- The dwindling muse: female-authored secular lyric in post-Tridentine Italy -- Chapter Three. Drama: Drama for the doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste -- Arcadian adventures: women writers and pastoral drama -- The challenge of tragedy: Valeria Miani's Celinda -- Chapter Four. Sacred Narrative: Women writers and the new sacred narrative -- Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina -- Hagiographic epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis -- Hagiographic epic remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena -- A Medicean sacred epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitato -- Chapter Five. Secular Narrative: Women writers and the literature of chivalry -- Ideology and history in female-authored chivalric epic -- Gender, arms, and love in female-authored chivalric fiction -- The fortunes of female-authored chivalric fiction -- Beyond chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's experiments in mythological epic and pastoral romance -- Chapter Six. Discursive Prose: Output and principal trends - Authorizing women: the problem of Docere -- Preachers in print: religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini -- Proclaiming women's worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmes -- Coda -- Appendix: Italian women writers active 1580-1635.Chapter One. Contexts: The female writer in context: opportunities, attitudes, models -- Women's writing and the counter-reformation -- Religious writing in post-Tridentine Italy: a poetics of conversion -- Secular writing in post-Tridentine Italy: the new sesualism and the misogynist turn -- Chapter Two. Lyric Verse: Women's lyric output, 1580-1630 -- Pietosi affetti: spiritual lyric and the female poet -- The dwindling muse: female-authored secular lyric in post-Tridentine Italy -- Chapter Three. Drama: Drama for the doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste -- Arcadian adventures: women writers and pastoral drama -- The challenge of tragedy: Valeria Miani's Celinda -- Chapter Four. Sacred Narrative: Women writers and the new sacred narrative -- Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina -- Hagiographic epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis -- Hagiographic epic remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena -- A Medicean sacred epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitato -- Chapter Five. Secular Narrative: Women writers and the literature of chivalry -- Ideology and history in female-authored chivalric epic -- Gender, arms, and love in female-authored chivalric fiction -- The fortunes of female-authored chivalric fiction -- Beyond chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's experiments in mythological epic and pastoral romance -- Chapter Six. Discursive Prose: Output and principal trends - Authorizing women: the problem of Docere -- Preachers in print: religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini -- Proclaiming women's worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmes -- Coda -- Appendix: Italian women writers active 1580-1635.

Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola, and the libidinal seasons : Proemium. The libido in winter : Bellini's (and Titian's) Feast of the gods -- The libido in springtime : Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne -- The libido in summer : Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians -- The libido in autumn : Titian's Feast of Venus -- Interpreting the Camerino : Titian's bacchanal as procreative pedagogy -- Colonna's Poliphilus' : The science and season of sexual performance : Proemium. Duke Gibaldo's dysfunction : Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love -- Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic : an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia -- Poliphilus's wet dream -- A Venus in the bedroom -- Coloring the roses : Colonna, Titian, and the "third Venus" -- A sacred/profane love : the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding.