Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry's work in the world.

Shannon McHugh is Associate Professor of Italian and French at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-translator of Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna (Iter Press, 2015) and co-editor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Acknowledgments, PART I, Literary and Sociohistorical Context, PART II, Making Gender Through Petrarchism, Afterword, Volume Bibliography, Index