The Ugly Woman : Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag -- Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture -- Rhetoric and the Ugly -- Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli -- Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and Nicolò de' Rossi -- Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia -- 2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute -- The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti -- Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry -- The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio -- The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano -- 3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura -- Paradoxical Praise -- Parody in Rustic Poetry -- Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola -- Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other -- Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino -- 'Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman' -- 4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty -- From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty -- The Dark Lady -- In Praise of Dark Hair -- In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other -- Female Old Age Revisited -- Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression,The Ugly Womanis a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.

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