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Record Number: 6996 Author(s)/Creator(s): Bryce , Judith. Contributor(s): Title: Performing for Strangers: Women, Dance, and Music in Quattrocento Florence Source URL: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 54, 4.1 (Winter 2001): 1074-1107. Link Info target = '_blank'>Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 54, 4.1 (Winter 2001): 1074-1107. Link Info Description: Article Type: Journal Article Subject (See Also): Dance Education Elite Women Florence Honor Music Performance Women in Active Roles Award Note: Geographic Area: Italy Century: 15 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: Contrary to a tradition of scholarly insistence on the invisibility of Florentine patrician women outside the domestic sphere, it can beargued such women did in effect perform a significant, public, or quasi-public, function in the negotiation of relationships between theRepublic and other Italian, and European, elites. This article assembles fragmentary evidence concerning dancing and musical performanceby women directed towards the entertainment of visiting notables in the second half of the Quattrocento, and uses modern concepts ofgendered performance and the performance of gender to speculate on the nature of that experience for the women involved. [Reproducedby permission of the Renaissance Society of America]. Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: University of Bristol Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 2001. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 00344338 0

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