Cicisbei : Italian morality and European values in the eighteenth century / Roberto Bizzocchi -- The temple of female glory : female self-affirmation in the Roman salon of the grand tour / Maria Pia Donato -- Giustina Renier Michiel and conflicting ideas of gender in late eighteenth-century Venice / Susan Dalton -- Revisiting Arcadia : women and academies in eighteenth-century Italy / Elisabetta Graziosi -- "On the canvas and on the page" : women shaping culture in eighteenth-century Venice / Catherine M. Sama -- "The residence of the arts" : Angelica Kauffman's place in Rome / Wendy Wassyng Roworth -- Strange births and surprising kin : the castrato's tale / Martha Feldman -- Sex without sex : an erotic image of the castrato singer / Roger Freitas -- Anatomy of a lesbian : medicine, pornography, and culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen -- As who dare gaze the sun : Anna Morandi Manzolini's wax anatomies of the male reproductive system and genitalia / Rebecca Messbarge -- Between modesty and spectacle : women and science in eighteenth-century Italy / Marta Cavazza -- "Monsters of talent" : fame and reputation of women improvisers in Arcadia / Paola Giuli -- Gender and genre in the religious art of the Catholic Enlightenment / Christopher M.S. Johns
Summary
This work illuminates the social and cultural landscape of 18th-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour
