Francesca D'Alessandro Behr is Associate Professor of Classics and
Italian Studies at the University of Houston and author of Feeling
History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion (OSU Press,
2007).
"Francesca D'Alessandro Behr brilliantly contributes to the
scholarship on Italian Renaissance [epics]....This book launches a
new season for Italian gender and renaissance studies, with regard
to women's representation of and through violence and war, a season
firmly rooted in the previous scholarship (e.g. Cox, Stoppino,
Finucci, Ross), but one that contributes with both innovative
thoughts and methodologies, and texts and figures that are still
mostly understudied." --Lucia Gemmani, gender/sexuality/italy
"High-quality works like D'Alessandro Behr's . . . are important
steps towards making women more visible in the history of Classical
scholarship. As D'Alessandro Behr argues for the authors covered in
this volume, the classical tradition can offer women the
opportunity to challenge the values of their society through a rich
shared vocabulary of images and ideas."--Bryn Mawr Classical
Review
"Arms and the Woman is a very worthwhile addition to the literature
on Fonte's and Marinella's epic poems, one that attests to their
importance and to the significance of reception theory. It reveals
the long-lasting impact of classical antiquity, and it casts
crucial light on early modern texts." --Maria Galli Stampino,
author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of
Modern Western Theater
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