Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance

by Lauro Martines and Professor Lauro Martines

Strong Words is a social history of the Italian Renaissance (13001560) in a cultural key. Using tales, poems, prayers, and letters as primary sources, Lauro Martines probes religious sensibilities, love, alienation, explosive feeling against political authority, the moral strains of patronage, and the close ways of urban neighborhoods. Case studies of suicide and the seduction of propertied women sharpen the analysis. By moving behind literary posture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873169
• ISBN13: 9780801873164
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"