1st Edition
The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy: Promoting Dignity and Agency
Acknowledgments
References
Introduction
The Origins
1 Women’s Education and the Defense of Eve
2 Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s Biblical Narratives
3 Performing the Bible: Dramas and Sermons in Florence
Biblical Models
4 Women Heralds and Apostles of Jesus: Mary Magdalene
5 Mary as Heavenly Gate
6 Mary as Embodied Love
Women’s Worth and Resurgent Misogyny
7 Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella on Genesis
8 Arcangela Tarabotti’s Exegetic Fight for Women’s Free Will
9 Venetian Misogyny and European Horizons
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Erminia Ardissino (Ph.D., Yale University; Dottorato di Ricerca, Università Cattolica, Milan) was Professor at the University of Torino and remains affiliated to the University. Her research deals with Italian literature, with particular attention to the relationship between the history of ideas and religious experience. She has published several books on Dante, and Renaissance and Baroque Italian literature, and articles in the leading journals of philology and literary studies. She has received numerous international awards and she has been a Research Associate at the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard University.
