Redreaming the Renaissance

MARY LINDEMANN is professor emerita of history, University of Miami. Her most recent books include: Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (2006), Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (2nd ed., 2009), and The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 (2015). She is currently writing a book on the wars of the mid to late seventeenth century and especially their aftermath in Brandenburg.DEANNA SHEMEK is professor of Italian and European studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (1998) and of In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of Letters (2021). She has coedited numerous volumes, including Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara (2005), Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives (2008), and Itinera chartarum: 150 anni dell’Archivio di Stato di Mantova (2019). She co-directs IDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive, an online project for study of the Italian Renaissance.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Redreaming the Renaissance: Mary Lindemann and Deanna ShemekPart I VisionsReflections on Reflections: The Pictorial Lessons of Mirrors in Vasari’s Lives 21: Douglas BiowDream Cultures of the Italian Cinquecento: Alessandro ArcangeliBianca e nera: Representations of African Women in Basile’s Teagene and The Tale of Tales: Suzanne MagnaniniPart II PassionsTales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives: Joanne FerraroGiovanni’s Story: Sex, Passion, and Identity in Early Modern Italy: Paula FindlenTullia d’Aragona’s Meschino and Religious Debate in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Julia L. HairstonPart III DramasPlaying with Food on the Italian Renaissance Stage: Konrad EisenbichlerTarquinia Molza and “Le cose del cielo”: Gender, Natural Philosophy, and Celebrity in Early Modern Italy: Meredith K. RayWomen, Opera, and OnestÀ in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Courtney QuaintancePart IV MethodsThe Beginnings of the Ending: Ariosto’s Last Proems of 1516: Albert Russell AscoliMicrohistory and the Digital Turn in Renaissance Historiography: Nicholas TerpstraNews in Verse: The Battle of Polesella (1509) between Imagination, Communication, and Information: Massimo RospocherContributorsIndex