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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Il padre dorme, i figli parlano. La legge del padre riscritta nel "Cortegiano"
Contributor:
Finucci, Valeria
Published:
Università degli studi di Bergamo: Servizi bibliotecari, 2023
Published in:
Elephant and castle (2023) 31, Seite 20-34
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.62336/unibg.eac.31.487
ISSN:
1826-6118
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>The essay examines the birth of the fraternal order, that is ‘democracy’ in its widest sense, in a key text of the Renais-sance, Baldassarre Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. Here courtiers reunited one evening at the Urbino court steadily create a position of power for themselves by disposing of the father figure of Duke Guidubaldo while suppressing their own rivalries and fashioning a common ideal I. Just as patriarchy, however, this essay argues that the collaborative regime of the brother is constructed on the silencing of women—sis-ters, wives, and mothers—and not just the court ladies of the early 16th century.</jats:p>