The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque /
The 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, Fra...
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| Language: | English Italian |
| Published: | Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005. |
| Series: | Toronto Italian studies.
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