9780801873164-0801873169-Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance

Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780801873164
ISBN-10: 0801873169
Author: Lauro Martines
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801873164
ISBN-10: 0801873169
Author: Lauro Martines
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages

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Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (ISBN-13: 9780801873164 and ISBN-10: 0801873169), written by authors Lauro Martines, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.36.

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Strong Words is a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300–1560) in a cultural key. Using tales, poems, prayers, and letters as primary sources, Lauro Martines probes religious sensibilities, love, alienation, explosive feeling against political authority, the moral strains of patronage, and the close ways of urban neighborhoods. Case studies of suicide and the seduction of propertied women sharpen the analysis.

By moving behind literary posture and metaphor, Martines exposes the power of local angers, fears, and loyalties, of misogyny, cruelty, and women's space. The vitality of urban experience in Renaissance Italy passes before us, as we see the language of literature giving form and immediacy to the emotions of everyday life.

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