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Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation and Difference)

paperback – January 1, 1989
by Salutati, Coluccio
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ISBN-13: 9780253205063 ISBN-10: 0253205069
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1989
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×2.00×15.60 cm

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Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Salutati, Coluccio. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780253205063.

"A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism." -- Margaret W. Ferguson "... provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... " -- Rocky Mountain Review "... provocative and fascinating... " -- Seventeenth-Century News "This book is boldly and originally conceived... " -- Comparative Literature Studies Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideological relationship between sexual violence and humanistic discourse.