LEADER 04409nam 2200865 450 001 9910821087403321 005 20230912132951.0 010 $a1-4426-5868-1 010 $a1-282-02913-4 010 $a9786612029134 010 $a1-4426-8248-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442682481 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004497 035 $a(EBL)4672174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000312166 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211833 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312166 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10330779 035 $a(PQKB)10035523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403857 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12626243 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403857 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11368675 035 $a(PQKB)11547507 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600451 035 $a(DE-B1597)465046 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954411 035 $a(OCoLC)944177365 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442682481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257853 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202913 035 $a(OCoLC)958579729 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/wb4drf 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255113 035 $a(PPN)264638204 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004497 100 $a20160923h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ugly woman $etransgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque /$fPatrizia Bettella 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$d©2005 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 0 $aToronto Italian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3873-5 311 $a0-8020-3926-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag -- $t2. Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute -- $t3. The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura -- $t4. New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. Mostly used between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - from the invectives of Rustico Filippi, Franco Sacchetti, and Burchiello, to the paradoxical praises of Francesco Berni, Niccolò Campani and Pietro Aretino, and further to the conceited encomia of Giambattista Marino and Marinisti - the portrayal of female unattractiveness was, argues Patrizia Bettella in The Ugly Woman, one way of figuring woman as 'other.'Bettella shows how medieval female ugliness included transgressive types ranging from the lustful old hag, to the slanderer, the wild woman, the heretic/witch, and the prostitute, whereas Early Modern unattractiveness targeted peasants, mountain dwellers, and black slaves: marginal women whose bodies and manners subvert aesthetic precepts of culturally normative beauty and propriety. Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies 606 $aItalian poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aUgliness in literature 606 $aMisogyny in literature 615 0$aItalian poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aUgliness in literature. 615 0$aMisogyny in literature. 676 $a851.0093522 700 $aBettella$b Patrizia$0789552 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821087403321 996 $aThe ugly woman$94060794 997 $aUNINA