Beasts and beauties : animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance

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Author:

Schiesari, Juliana, author.

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9781442697881

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Series:

Toronto Italian Studies

Toronto Italian studies.

Abstract:

Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals.

Subject Term:

Families -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.

Patriarchy -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.

Human-animal relationships -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.

Animals and civilization -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.

Humanism -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442697881

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