Giovanni and Lusanna Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence

Name: Giovanni and Lusanna Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9780520244955

ISBN-10: 0520244958

ISBN-13: 9780520244955

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Gene Adam Brucker

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This compelling account of a wronged woman in Renaissance Florence, first published in 1986, is a fascinating view of Florentine society and its attitudes on love, marriage, class, and gender. Lusanna was a beautiful woman from a middle-class background who, in 1455, brought suit against Giovanni, her aristocratic lover, when she learned he had contracted to marry a woman of his own class. Blending scholarship with insightful narrative, the book portrays an extraordinary woman who challenged the unwritten codes and barriers of the social hierarchy and dared to seek a measure of personal independence in a male-dominated world.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 154
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface to the 2005 Edition


Preface to the First Edition


The Context


The History of a Relationship


The Quest for Justice


Love, Marriage, and the Social Order


Epilogue


References


Sources for Illustrations