Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

Shannon McHugh is Assistant Professor of Italian and French at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Anna Wainwright is Assistant Professor of Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Amedeo Quondam
Introduction

Part I: Foundations
Re-Thinking Counter-Reformation Literature by Virginia Cox

Scientific Discovery in Florentine Painting of the Counter-Reformation: Cigoli's Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1590) and Stigmatizations of St. Francis (1596 and 1602) by Lisa Bourla

Part II: Gender
The Armed Maiden of the Sixteenth Century and the Unmaking of Tasso's Clorinda by Gerry Milligan

The Fair Warrior in the City of Florence: Maddalena Salvetti's Poems to Christine of Lorraine by Anna Wainwright

Devotion, Desire, and Masculinity in the Spiritual Verse of Angelo Grillo by Shannon McHugh

Part III: Theater
Performing Drama: Theater as Spiritual Practice in the Works of Fabio Glissenti by Eugenio Refini

"Deggio ferma tener la santa fede": Representing the Priest in Pastoral Drama in Counter-Reformation Italy by Lisa Sampson

Playing Milan: Secular Drama, Sacred Reform, and the Family Andreini by Sarah Gwyneth Ross

Part IV: Bologna: A City Case Study
Bologna, Marian City in the Drawings of Francesco Cavazzoni (1559-1616) by Gabriella Zarri

Violence in Early Modern Bologna: A Provisional Appraisal by Monica Calabritto

Part V: Emotion and Expression
Tasso's Poetic Self-Commentary, His Dialogues, and a New Philosophical Syncretism: The Last Phase of the Renaissance Love Treatises by Armando Maggi

Girolamo Mei, Early Opera, and Experience by Joseph Perna

"Sottoporsi agli occhi del mondo nelle stampe": Sarra Copia Sulam and the Venetian Press by Lynn Lara Westwater

Contributors
Index