Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism""A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism."" -- Margaret W. Ferguson .."". provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... "" -- Rocky Mountain Review .."". provocative and fascinating... "" -- Seventeenth-Century News ""This book is boldly and originally conceived... "" -- Comparative Literature Studies Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideological relationship between sexual violence and humanistic discourse. |
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accounts activity antiqua Baron body Casamassima castigation chaste thinking chastity Cicchetti/Mordenti Cicero claim Coluccio Coluccio Salutati Comune contact with writing contamination context correct corruption Corsini culture Dati Dati's Edited emotions errors experience father feel fifteenth-century Florence figure Florence Florence's Florentine humanists graphic reform Guicciardini handwriting Hans Baron historiographic honor humanism Humanistic Collection humanistic tradition humanists husband idealized integrity interpretive Invectiva kind Latin legend letters liberty libro literary Livy logic Lucius Junius Brutus Lucretia's chastity Lucretia's kinsmen Lucretia's rape lust manuscript Marcus Brutus Martin Guerre means mercantile writing merchants modern moral Morelli narrative notarial paleographic particular perspective Petrarch Petrucci philological philologist pleasure practice produced Quattrocento quod ragione rape of Lucretia reader reading relation Renaissance representation represented reproduced Republican Rome Roman texts Salutati Salutati's Declamatio scholar scribe script scrittura secret book Sextus Tarquinius storia suicide Tarquin textual materials thought tion transmission transmitted tyranny violation