商品簡介
Edited by Finlen (Italian history, Stanford U.), Roworth (art history and women's studies, U. of Rhode Island), and Sama (Italian and film media, U. of Rhode Island), this collection of 13 essays developed out of an eponymous 2002 conference held at the Getty Research Institute and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, co-sponsored with the U. of California at Los Angles Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Scholars from such fields as the history of science, art and music history, literature, travel writing, and gender studies explore the theme of gender and culture in 18th-century Italy. The collection's subtheme deals with perceptions of Italy by other Europeans, as Italy was a common destination of the Grand Tour, an education rite of passage primarily associated with British and Northern European nobility and wealthy gentry. Among the topics discussed by the papers are Italian morality and the social institution of the cicisbei (publicly professed gallants and lovers of married women); female-self affirmation in the Roman salon of the Grand Tour; women and academies; women that helped shape culture in Venice; Swiss-Austrian painter Angelica Kauffman's residence in Rome; gender and genre in the religious art of the Catholic Enlightenment; medicine, pornography, and culture in 18th-century Italy; and women and science in 18th-century Italy. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History at Stanford University. Wendy Wassyng Roworth is Professor of Art History and Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Catherine M. Sama is Associate Professor of Italian and Film Media at the University of Rhode Island.