Parlour games and the public life of women in Renaissance Italy /

Parlour games and the public life of women in Renaissance Italy /

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centur...

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Main Author: McClure, George W., 1951- (Author)
Format: Online Resource eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1450-1600
Women > Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Women > Italy > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Women > Italy > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Indoor games > Social aspects > Italy > History > 16th century.
Renaissance > Italy.
Manners and customs.
Renaissance.
Women > Intellectual life.
Women > Renaissance.
Women > Social life and customs.
Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Italy.
History.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjvcg
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