Author: Shemek, Deanna
Title: Ladies Errant : Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,258 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Examines gender relations in early modern Italy, focusing on ways women escaped the social constraints prescribed for them during the 15th and 16 th centuries. Shemek examines a variety of social phenomena of this period,including the run by prostitutes of Ferrara, the public torture of the prostitute, Isabella de Luna and the Renaissance epic, Orlando Furioso, the most popular of its century" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Italian Literary History, Early Modern Italy, Renaissance, Social Sociology, Historical, Criticism, Women, ,