In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth–ce – Literary and Social Contexts for Women`s Writing

Julie D. Campbell is professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006). She has edited and translated Isabella Andreini's La Mirtilla (MRTS, 2002). With Anne R. Larsen, she has coedited Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Ashgate, 2009). Maria Galli Stampino is associate professor of Italian and French at the University of Miami. She is the author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater (MRTS, 2005). She has edited and translated for The Other Voice: Chicago series Lucrezia Marinella's Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem (University of Chicago Press), 2009.

"This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro–woman texts are explored in the essays, and the recent critical debates are examined. The translations make available in English a selection of male–authored texts which directly or indirectly elicited the spirited responses of women, for which the volume is aptly entitled 'In Dialogue.' A valuable classroom resource, the volume is an important addition to The Other Voice: Toronto series."

• Acknowledgments ixIntroductionJulie D. Campbell and Maria Galli Stampino 1Part 1: Contexts and the Canon1. Contexts and Canonical Authors Julie D. Campbell and Maria Galli Stampino 172. Christian Feminine Virtue in Silvio Antoniano’s Three Books on the Christian Education of Children Julie D. Campbell 593. Stefano Guazzo’s Civil conversatione and the querelle des femmesJulie D. Campbell 734. Alessandro Piccolomini’s Raffaella: A Parody of Women’s Behavior and Men’s Dialogues Maria Galli Stampino 89Part 2: Cases5. Torquato Tasso: Discourse on Feminine and Womanly VirtueLori J. Ultsch 1156. Giuseppe Passi’s Attacks on Women in The Defects of WomenSuzanne Magnanini with David Lamari 1437. Love as Centaur: Rational Man, Animal Woman in Sperone Speroni’s Dialogue on LoveJanet L. Smarr 1958. Francesco Andreini: “On Taking a Wife”Julie D. Campbell 2659. Dishonoring Courtesans in Early Modern Italy: The poesia puttanesca of Anton Francesco Grazzini, Nicolò Franco, and Maffio VenierPatrizia Bettella 28910. Giulia Bigolina and Pietro Aretino’s LettersChristopher Nissen 31311. Centrality and Liminality in Bernardino Ochino’s “Sermon Preached… on the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalen”Maria Galli Stampino 325BibliographySelect List of Male-Authored Texts in Translation 349Primary Sources 357Secondary Sources 365Notes on Contributors 376Index 379