Conduct for the Real Widow Giulio Cesare Cabei’s Ornamenti della gentildonna vedova (1574)
- Publication type: Article from a collective work
- Collective work: Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy 1470-1900. Prescribing and Describing Life
- Author: Sanson (Helena)
- Abstract: Widows were uneasy figures within a society that categorized women strictly on the basis of a male counterpart: as unattached figures, they were seen as socially disruptive and therefore in need of restraint. Giulio Cesare Cabei’s Ornamenti della gentildonna vedova prescribes the everyday behaviour of a good widow, an eloquent example of “vera viduità”, while offering, at the same time, useful information about the customs relating to widows and widowhood in sixteenth-century society.
- Pages: 41 to 61
- Collection: Women and Gender in Italy (1500-1900), n° 1
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782406059189
- ISBN: 978-2-406-05918-9
- ISSN: 2497-4846
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-05918-9.p.0041
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 10-24-2016
- Language: English