03560nam 2200721 450 991045863580332120211027182259.01-4426-9744-X10.3138/9781442697447(CKB)2560000000054270(EBL)4672913(SSID)ssj0000485000(PQKBManifestationID)12157973(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485000(PQKBWorkID)10603176(PQKB)11309377(CEL)433763(CaBNvSL)slc00226110(MiAaPQ)EBC3272818(MiAaPQ)EBC4672913(DE-B1597)465249(OCoLC)1013958054(OCoLC)944176559(DE-B1597)9781442697447(Au-PeEL)EBL4672913(CaPaEBR)ebr11258564(OCoLC)759157382(EXLCZ)99256000000005427020160926h20092009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHopeless love Boiardo, Ariosto, and narratives of queer female desire /Mary-Michelle DeCosteToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2009.©20091 online resource (176 p.)Toronto Italian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-9684-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 Warrior Woman/Lovely Lady --2 To Disguise and Deceive --3 Stopping without Ending --4 Concluding the Tale --5 Queer Female Desire in Cinquecento Comedy --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --IndexBook three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando). At the end of his poem, Boiardo tells the tale of the princess Fiordispina's unfulfilled desire for the maiden warrior Bradamante, a story that Ariosto retells in the body of his later work. In Hopeless Love, Mary-Michelle DeCoste examines both versions of the Fiordispina and Bradamante episode using feminist and queer theory. DeCoste then links these treatments of queer female desire to their wider cultural contexts by exploring their antecedents in genres such as medieval romance epic and hagiography and by examining similar tropes in other sixteenth-century romance epics. An important work on a previously overlooked subject, Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe.Toronto Italian studies.Lesbianism in literatureDesire in literatureCross-dressing in literatureItalian literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Lesbianism in literature.Desire in literature.Cross-dressing in literature.Italian literatureHistory and criticism.850.9/3526643DeCoste Mary-Michelle994046MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458635803321Hopeless love2276608UNINA