Gerry Milligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5766904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry Milligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Milligan |
| SIGNATURE | MILLIGAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Staten Island |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3553-698X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ruggiero, Melissa, and Effeminate Enchantment in the Garden of Alcina
In a celebrated episode of Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Ruggiero luxuriates in the garden of the sorceress Alcina. A second sorceress, Melissa, travels to the garden and describes Ruggiero as effeminate, corrupt, and ill. She offers herself as the doctor who will cure the knight and drag him out of softness and into the violence of an epic destiny. She shames the knight into exchanging his soft dress for armour and leaving the garden. This transfor…
Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature
The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women's militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women's right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women's virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and vi…
Behaving like a Man: Performed Masculinities in Gl'ingannati
This essay focuses specifically on masculine performance in the Gl 'ingannati (1532) and views the comedy's sexual play as imbued with a political discourse. The tension and disorder so precious to comedy are, in Gl 'ingannati, borne precisely from the political and sexual anxieties of the recently invaded Italy in the sack of 1527. The social disorder caused by the sack is paralleled by the sexual ‘disorder’ of the raped and sodomized protagonis…
Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples
The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence
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The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence
Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples
Behaving like a Man: Performed Masculinities in Gl'ingannati
This essay focuses specifically on masculine performance in the Gl 'ingannati (1532) and views the comedy's sexual play as imbued with a political discourse. The tension and disorder so precious to comedy are, in Gl 'ingannati, borne precisely from the political and sexual anxieties of the recently invaded Italy in the sack of 1527. The social disorder caused by the sack is paralleled by the sexual ‘disorder’ of the raped and sodomized protagonis…
Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature
The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women's militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women's right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women's virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and vi…
Ruggiero, Melissa, and Effeminate Enchantment in the Garden of Alcina
In a celebrated episode of Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Ruggiero luxuriates in the garden of the sorceress Alcina. A second sorceress, Melissa, travels to the garden and describes Ruggiero as effeminate, corrupt, and ill. She offers herself as the doctor who will cure the knight and drag him out of softness and into the violence of an epic destiny. She shames the knight into exchanging his soft dress for armour and leaving the garden. This transfor…
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