04534nam 2200697 a 450 991100846620332120200520144314.01-280-54591-797866105459191-84615-144-9(CKB)1000000000336872(EBL)218579(OCoLC)475925227(SSID)ssj0000237870(PQKBManifestationID)12029738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237870(PQKBWorkID)10192411(PQKB)10544441(MiAaPQ)EBC218579(DE-B1597)674573(DE-B1597)9781846151446(UkCbUP)CR9781846151446(EXLCZ)99100000000033687220030521d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRewriting the Italian novella in counter-reformation Spain /Carmen R. RabellWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;Rochester, N.Y. Tamesis20031 online resource (171 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias. ;199Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2023).1-85566-092-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.The theory of the novella -- Francisco de Lugo y Davila and Francesco Bonciani's forensic readings of Aristotle -- Forensic discourse and the novella -- The role of law in the Spanish versions of Italian novellas -- Buried alive: telling the story of Romeo and Juliet in post-Tridentine Spain -- Orbecche and Ardenia: the world upside down -- The legend of two friends: changing the face of the body politic --The fictitious case and the Spanish novella -- "El celoso extremeno": arguing for and against the legal infancy of women -- Narrating the impossible: the resurrection of women -- "El androgino" by Francisco de Lugo y Davila : speaking from a woman's body.The contradiction between the form of the (adapted) novella and its content intended a challenge to the rules and regulations of Counter-Reformation Spain. As they reshaped the Italian novella under the inquisitorial atmosphere of the Counter-Reformation, Spanish narrators labelled their texts as exemplary. However, critics have usually agreed that there is a contradiction between the morals preached in the narrative frames, prologues and sententiae of Spanish novellas and the content of the plots. Rabell sees this ambiguity as a result of the use of the rhetoric of the fictitious case: Spanish novellas rewrite the Italian genre with the specific purpose of either challenging or validating the rules regarding marriage introduced by the Council of Trent. Since civil, canonical and family hierarchies were based on the same metaphor that conceives power as one body in which, by analogy, the husband is the head of his family, as the monarch is the head of the state and the Pope is the head of the church, Spanish novellas explore the contradictions between civil and canon laws regarding the private context of marriage in order to suggest further contradictions within the public sphere of state and church. The fictitious case provides a rhetoric to test the validity of the legalgrounds of Counter-Reformation Spain. CARMEN R. RABELL is associate professor, department of comparative literature, University of Puerto Rica - Rio Piedras.Coleccion Tamesis.Serie A,Monografias ;199.Spanish fictionClassical period, 1500-1700History and criticismItalian fictionTo 1400History and criticismItalian fiction15th centuryHistory and criticismNovelleHistory and criticismCensorshipSpainHistory16th centuryCensorshipSpainHistory17th centurySpanish fictionHistory and criticism.Italian fictionHistory and criticism.Italian fictionHistory and criticism.NovelleHistory and criticism.CensorshipHistoryCensorshipHistory863/.309Rabell Carmen163079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911008466203321Rewriting the Italian novella in counter-reformation Spain4394160UNINA