Imagining and Reimagining Gender: Boccaccio’s Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia and Its Renaissance Visual Legacy
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia (1339–1341?) is an innovative vernacular text in which Teseo (Theseus) and the Scythian Amazons are reinvented as antagonists in a war fought to determine how women are meant to live their lives. Boccaccio’s characterization of these figures and thei...
Main Author: | Margaret Franklin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-01-01
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Series: | Humanities |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/1/6 |
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