Giovanni and Lusanna. Love and marriage in Renaissance Florence - Softcover

Brucker, Gene A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520244958 ISBN 13: 9780520244955

Verlag: University of California Press, 2004

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"Set against the grindstone of social class, this story of Lusanna versus Giovanni, gleaned from the archives of Renaissance Florence, throws a floodlight on relations between the sexes. Gene Brucker's wonderful account has remarkable resonance." - Lauro Martines, author of April Blood "In the years since it first appeared, Gene Brucker's Giovanni and Lusanna has attracted a large and loyal readership. There is no better introduction to the complex realities of life (and love) in Florence during the Renaissance." - William J. Connell, Professor of History and La Motta Chair in Italian Studies, Seton Hall University"

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This compelling account of a wronged woman in Renaissance Florence, first published in 1986, is a fascinating view of Florentine society and its attitudes on love, marriage, class, and gender. Lusanna was a beautiful woman from a middle-class background who, in 1455, brought suit against Giovanni, her aristocratic lover, when she learned he had contracted to marry a woman of his own class. Blending scholarship with insightful narrative, the book portrays an extraordinary woman who challenged the unwritten codes and barriers of the social hierarchy and dared to seek a measure of personal independence in a male-dominated world.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520244958
• ISBN 13: 9780520244955
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138