LEADER 03560nam 2200721 450 001 9910458635803321 005 20211027182259.0 010 $a1-4426-9744-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442697447 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054270 035 $a(EBL)4672913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485000 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12157973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485000 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10603176 035 $a(PQKB)11309377 035 $a(CEL)433763 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672913 035 $a(DE-B1597)465249 035 $a(OCoLC)1013958054 035 $a(OCoLC)944176559 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442697447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672913 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258564 035 $a(OCoLC)759157382 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054270 100 $a20160926h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHopeless love $eBoiardo, Ariosto, and narratives of queer female desire /$fMary-Michelle DeCoste 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-9684-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Warrior Woman/Lovely Lady --$t2 To Disguise and Deceive --$t3 Stopping without Ending --$t4 Concluding the Tale --$t5 Queer Female Desire in Cinquecento Comedy --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBook three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando). At the end of his poem, Boiardo tells the tale of the princess Fiordispina's unfulfilled desire for the maiden warrior Bradamante, a story that Ariosto retells in the body of his later work. In Hopeless Love, Mary-Michelle DeCoste examines both versions of the Fiordispina and Bradamante episode using feminist and queer theory. DeCoste then links these treatments of queer female desire to their wider cultural contexts by exploring their antecedents in genres such as medieval romance epic and hagiography and by examining similar tropes in other sixteenth-century romance epics. An important work on a previously overlooked subject, Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aLesbianism in literature 606 $aDesire in literature 606 $aCross-dressing in literature 606 $aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLesbianism in literature. 615 0$aDesire in literature. 615 0$aCross-dressing in literature. 615 0$aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a850.9/3526643 700 $aDeCoste$b Mary-Michelle$0994046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458635803321 996 $aHopeless love$92276608 997 $aUNINA