An Italian Renaissance Sextet : Six Tales in Historical Context /

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"This collection of six tales offers enticing views into the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world. All written between 1400 and 1500 - among them a rare gem by Lorenzo the Magnificent and a famous account featuring Filippo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Martines, Lauro, Baca, Murtha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Erzählung
Short stories, Italian.
Italian fiction.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
FICTION > General.
Nouvelles italiennes > Traductions anglaises.
Roman italien > 15e siecle > Traductions anglaises.
Short stories, Italian > Translations into English.
Italian fiction > 15th century > Translations into English.
Italienisch.
Anthologie.
Translations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"This collection of six tales offers enticing views into the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world. All written between 1400 and 1500 - among them a rare gem by Lorenzo the Magnificent and a famous account featuring Filippo Brunelleschi - the stories are presented here in lively translations ... The tales deal with marriage, deception, rural manners, gender relations, social ambitions, adultery, homosexuality, and the demands of individual identity. Each is accompanied by an essay in which Lauro Martines situates the story in its temporal context, transforming it into an outright historical document"--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781442670815

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