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Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 months ago
Views - 2
Publication Date - Dec 2004
Seller Description
Whether you need this book for history class, or you are looking for an excellent love story, this is the book for you! This will delve into the real life story of Giovanni and Lusanna and their marriage. Other than a few stickers on the book, it is in excellent condition! #paperback#college#history#love#marriage#italy#renaissance#microhistory
Publisher Description
ISBN: 0520244958
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.