Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage by Katherine A. McIver

Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Katherine A. McIver

286 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, ren...

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