In Widow's Habit: Women between Convent and Family in Sixteenth-Century Milan

Baernstein, P. Renée

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“…It is likely that they knew each other in Rome; Jacopa was originally from Trastevere, and it would have made sense for her to appeal to a fellow Roman transplant to Florence. 17 On widows as tertiaries see Baernstein (1994 Klapisch-Zuber (1986, p. 131). According to the famous Florentine catasto (census) of 1427, widows made up an extraordinary 25% of the general population in the city of Florence; the percentage was 13.6 in other Italian cities (Herlihy and Klapisch-Zuber 1985, pp. 214-22).…”

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Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

Wainwright

2018

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Abstract:In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, a woman's social identity changed when her husband died. She became both a symbol of his loss, and a living monument to his legacy-an ambassador between the living and the dead. Responsible not only for preserving his memory on earth, a widow was also expected to pray on behalf of her husband's soul, to work to rescue him from the torments of Purgatory through her dutiful appeals. Widows were at once asked to pray quietly alone, and tasked with work central to society: the salvation of souls after death. This dual identity-sometimes isolated, yet of fundamental importance-makes the widow an opportune subject for students of early modern conceptions of the relationship between religion and gender. In this essay, I look at widows in Lucrezia Tornabuoni's Judith, Hebrew Widow and Antonia Tanini Pulci's The Destruction of Saul and the Lament of David. Taught side-by-side, these texts provide students with multiple, interconnected ports of entry into the early modern world, encouraging an investigation of how the two women writers worked to place widows at the center of their respective stories, rather than relegated to the margins.

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Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

Wainwright

2018

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“…Il tema dell'esemplarità della marchesa di Pescara costituisce il filo conduttore dello studio di Cox (2016). Su ruoli, doveri e rappresentazioni ideali delle vedove in età umanisticorinascimentale, si vedano Chabot (1994), Baernstein (1994), King (1995) e (1998), Murphy (2000), Levy (2003), Ffolliott (1986) quadro di luminoso misticismo incornicia il cuore del componimento nel quale è esaltata la gloria della marchesa di Pescara ed è celebrato il luogo della sua dimora, l'isola partenopea: S'ai raggi di valor, che grave e oscura Nebbia non copre, riconosco i segni, Ivi è colei che tutti gli altri ingegni Co' suoi chiari pensier vince et oscura:…”

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The Image of the Marquise: Bernardo Tasso and the Representation of Vittoria Colonna in the «Libro secondo degli Amori»

Magalhães

2020

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“…On the various options open to women in terms of both lay and religious communities, see Gill. On the entry of widows into religious life, see Baernstein, 1994; Lawless, 2003, 23–25. On the formation of lay communities and companies of widows and young virginal women in the second half of the sixteenth century, see Zarri, 2001.…”

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Prophets, Saints, and Matriarchs: Portraits of Old Women in Early Modern Italy^*

Campbell

2010

Renaiss. Q.

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This essay examines portraits of old women that were produced for the households of the professional and elite classes in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and the Veneto during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious and social reform, women's lives came under increasing scrutiny. By interpreting the portraits within the context of prescriptive texts on the stages of women's lives, this study argues that the portraits provide evidence for the pivotal role of old women within the moral and symbolic order of the family, as well as in the wider community beyond the home.

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In Widow's Habit: Women between Convent and Family in Sixteenth-Century Milan

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Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

The Image of the Marquise: Bernardo Tasso and the Representation of Vittoria Colonna in the «Libro secondo degli Amori»

Prophets, Saints, and Matriarchs: Portraits of Old Women in Early Modern Italy^*

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Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

The Image of the Marquise: Bernardo Tasso and the Representation of Vittoria Colonna in the «Libro secondo degli Amori»

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