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The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

Finucci, Valeria

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Italian HistoryMen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822330547
ISBN13: 9780822330547
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 19 2003
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso, and Ariosto. Valeria Finucci shows how ideas of masculinity were formed in the midst of acute anxiety about paternity by highlighting the beliefs--widely held at the time--that conception could occur without a paternal imprimatur or through a woman's encounter with an animal, or even that a pregnant woman's imagination could erase the father's signature from the fetus. Against these visions of reproduction gone awry, Finucci looks at how concepts of masculinity were tied to issues of paternity through social standing, legal matters, and inheritance practices.

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