Preface / Amedeo Quondam -- Foundations. Virginia Cox : Re-Thinking Counter-Reformation Literature -- Lisa Bourla : Scientific Discovery in Florentine Painting of the Counter-Reformation : Cigoli's Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1590) and Stigmatizations of St. Francis (1596 and 1602) -- Gender. Gerry Milligan : The Armed Maiden of the Sixteenth Century and the Unmaking of Tasso's Clorinda -- Anna Wainwright : The Fair Warrior in the City of Florence : Maddalena Salvetti's Poems to Christine of Lorraine -- Shannon McHugh : Devotion, Desire, and Masculinity in the Spiritual Verse of Angelo Grillo -- Theater. Eugenio Refini : Reforming Drama: Theater as Spiritual Practice in the Works of Fabio Glissenti -- Lisa Sampson : "Deggio ferma tener la santa fede" : Representing the Priest in Pastoral Drama in Counter-Reformation Italy -- Sarah Gwyneth Ross : Playing Milan : Secular Drama, Sacred Reform, and the Family Andreini -- Bologna : A City Case Study. Gabriella Zarri : Bologna, Marian City in the Drawings of Francesco Cavazzoni (1559-1616) -- Monica Calabritto : Violence in Early Modern Bologna : A Provsional Appraisal -- Emotion and Expression. Armando Maggi : Tasso's Poetic Self-Commentary, His Dialogues, and a New Philosophical Syncretism : The Last Phase of the Renaissance Love Treatises -- Joseph Perna : Girolamo Mei, Early Opera, and Experience -- Lynn Westwater : "Sottoporsi agli occhi del mondo nelle stampe" : Sarra Copia Sulam and the Venetian Press.
Summary:
"The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent (1545-1563) ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. The repercussions of this cliche continue to be felt in literary studies in particular. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume's contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study, but is positively innovative"-- Provided by publisher.
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