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Defining the art of conversation -- Regulating blasphemy -- Insults -- Conversation and exchange : networks of gossip -- The language of courtesans

Ann Crabb, The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the RenaissanceStanley Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician SocietyMonica Chojnacka, Working Women of Early Modern VeniceJoanne M. Ferraro, Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice

"This volume considers the history of Italy in a global context by examining how Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest, and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial state of Italy. Italians began to venerate images of the Peruvian Virgin of Copacabana, plant tomatoes, potatoes, and maize, and publish costume books showcasing the clothing of the kings and queens of Florida, revealing the powerful hold that the Americas had on the Italian imagination. By considering a variety of cases illuminating the presence of the Americas in Italy, this volume demonstrates how early modern Italian culture developed as much from multicultural contact--with Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean--as it did from the rediscovery of classical antiquity"--