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Binding passions : tales of magic, marriage, and power at the end of the Renaissance /

Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrativ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Carne vale and carnival
  • Love bound : Andriana Savorgnan, common whore, courtesan, and noble wife
  • "More dear to me than life itself" : marriage, honor, and a woman's reputation in the Renaissance
  • That old black magic called love
  • The women priests of Latisana : Apollonia Madizza and the ties that bind
  • "The fortune-telling friar" : Fra Aurelio di Siena and the wages of sin
  • Afterword : the poetry of the everyday and binding passions.