Parution : Shannon McHugh, “Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2023
This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and experimentation – as well as its status as the most accessible of genres – in order to...