Sara E Díaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5767738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara E Díaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Díaz |
| SIGNATURE | DÍAZ S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gendering the Renaissance
Exceptional Bodies and Ludic Lovers
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy
Age, Virility and Vernacularity
This article explores discourses of youth and maturity in the pseudo-autobiographical frames to Boccaccio’s own works, and in his biographies of Dante and Petrarch. It analyses paradigmatic approaches to authorial age and their movement towards and away from an erotic literary past. These age tropes are contextualised by surveying the chronological limits, characteristics and values ascribed in the Middle Ages to phases of the masculine lifespan.…
Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan
Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan: Selected Poems of Margherita Costa. Margherita Costa. Ed. Natalia Costa-Zalessow. Trans. Joan E. Borrelli. VIA Folios 116. New York: Bordighera Press, 2015. 270 pp. $24. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Contested Virilities
This study explores the construction of Forese Donati’s gendered identity in Dante’s tenzone with Forese and, to a lesser extent, in the Purgatorio. The contradictory Forese episodes are analyzed in terms of gender practice and performance, and shown to be complementary representations of masculinity. I argue that as an aggressive contest for verbal dominance, the tenzone with Forese captures the dynamic struggle to assert hegemonic virility with…
Barbara Torelli Benedetti, Partenia, A Pastoral Play
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Contested Virilities
This study explores the construction of Forese Donati’s gendered identity in Dante’s tenzone with Forese and, to a lesser extent, in the Purgatorio. The contradictory Forese episodes are analyzed in terms of gender practice and performance, and shown to be complementary representations of masculinity. I argue that as an aggressive contest for verbal dominance, the tenzone with Forese captures the dynamic struggle to assert hegemonic virility with…
Barbara Torelli Benedetti, Partenia, A Pastoral Play
Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan
Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan: Selected Poems of Margherita Costa. Margherita Costa. Ed. Natalia Costa-Zalessow. Trans. Joan E. Borrelli. VIA Folios 116. New York: Bordighera Press, 2015. 270 pp. $24. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Age, Virility and Vernacularity
This article explores discourses of youth and maturity in the pseudo-autobiographical frames to Boccaccio’s own works, and in his biographies of Dante and Petrarch. It analyses paradigmatic approaches to authorial age and their movement towards and away from an erotic literary past. These age tropes are contextualised by surveying the chronological limits, characteristics and values ascribed in the Middle Ages to phases of the masculine lifespan.…
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy
Exceptional Bodies and Ludic Lovers
Gendering the Renaissance
Art (6 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)