The Publisher Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, Female Readers, and the Debate about Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy.
The article investigates the strategies used by 16th century Italian publisher Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari to appeal to a female readership in books relating to the controversy about women in Giovanni Boccaccio's works. The author traces the shift in Giolito's interest from literature defending wome...
| Publicado en: | Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 5 - 33 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Iter Canada
Autumn2004
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| Sumario: | The article investigates the strategies used by 16th century Italian publisher Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari to appeal to a female readership in books relating to the controversy about women in Giovanni Boccaccio's works. The author traces the shift in Giolito's interest from literature defending women and Boccaccio's works to vernacular devotional literature for women in the post-Tridentine climate of the latter part of the 16th century. |
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