On the Beauty of Women

Name: On the Beauty of Women
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ISBN: 9780812214048

ISBN-10: 0812214048

ISBN-13: 9780812214048

Edition: 1993

Authors: Agnolo Firenzuola, Konrad Eisenbichler, Jacqueline Murray, Jacqueline Murray, Jacqueline Murray

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First published in 1548,On the Beauty of Womenpurports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created beauty. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Biography


Firenzuola's Works


The Structure of the Dialogue


The Characters of the Dialogue


The Courtship Game


Intellectual Background to Renaissance Neoplatonism


Firenzuola, Neoplatonism, and Art


Ideas about the Nature of Women


Critical Comments on the Dialogue On the Beauty of Women


Translation Criteria


Notes


Bibliography


Proem


First Dialogue


Second Dialogue


Notes to the Proem


Notes to the First Dialogue


Notes to the Second Dialogue


Index