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Widow City
“Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance”
2025219 pages~4h read
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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the evolving role of the widow in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to women poets including Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, as a key model demonstrating to readers how to mourn and how to live well after devastating loss.