Circular definitions: configuring gender in Italian Renaissance festival.

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: March 22, 1995| Author: Shemek, Deanna | Copyright information

A painting by Francesco del Cossa of a typical urban activity in Ferrara, Italy during the 15th century demonstrates the importance of public ritual in emphasizing the power relationships, legal structures and gender politics of the Renaissance era. The particular painting shows a race participated in by scantily-dressed women and men. The females were presumably prostitutes who joined such festivals voluntarily and whose role in the society of the period was acknowledged, although they were ...

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