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1. Record Number: 26949
Author(s): Gullino, Giuseppe
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Title : Il "Clan" dei Foscari. Politica matrimoniale e interessi familiari (secc. XIV-XV) [The Foscari family had many branches by the fourteenth century, and their children married into other prominent families. These ties were intended to advance the economic interests, and later the political ambitions, of the Foscari. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Studi Veneziani , 54., ( 2007): Pages 31 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2007.

2. Record Number: 14650
Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Vita religiosa delle donne nel medioevo veneziano: indicazioni delle fonti dei secoli XII-XIV [Venetian archives are rich in documents touching on the lives of medieval women, lay and religious. These include evidence of the Republic's intervention in the lives of women's monasteries. Support of these foundations was combined with efforts to correct lapses in discipline and bad morals. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chiesa, vita religiosa, societa nel Medioevo italiano: Studi offerti a Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini. Edited by Mariaclara Rossi and Gian Maria Varanini . Herder, 2005. Studi Veneziani , 54., ( 2007): Pages 613 - 630.
Year of Publication: 2005.

3. Record Number: 20150
Author(s): Anderson, Jaynie
Contributor(s):
Title : Gardens of Love in Venetian Painting of the Quattrocento [The author reconstructs and interprets a set of Venetian paintings concerned with a garden of love. The imagery is related to both literary and biblical texts. Among them are pictures and texts about Helen of Troy. The paintings provide fragmentary evidence of lay tastes for images related to love and lovers. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by F. W. Kent and Charles Zika Late Medieval Early Modern Studies . Brepols, 2005. Studi Veneziani , 54., ( 2007): Pages 201 - 234.
Year of Publication: 2005.

4. Record Number: 21343
Author(s): Bellavitis, Anna
Contributor(s):
Title : A proposito di "Men and Women in Renaissance Venice" di Stanley Chojnacki

Source: Quaderni Storici , 118., 1 ( 2005): Pages 203 - 238.
Year of Publication: 2005.

5. Record Number: 10879
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women's Inheritance and Testamentary Practices in Late Fourteenth- and Early Fifteenth-Century Venice and Ghent

Source: The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries. Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Quaderni Storici , 118., 1 ( 2005): Pages 79 - 108.
Year of Publication: 2004.

6. Record Number: 11669
Author(s): Orlando, Ermanno.
Contributor(s):
Title : Il matrimonio delle beffe: Unioni finte, simulate, per gioco, Padova e Venezia, fine secolo XIV - inizi secolo XVI [The emphasis on consent in medieval ecclesiastical regulations concerning matrimony left the way open for clandestine and simulated marriages. The lack of required public formalities permitted men to mislead women they desired by simulating marriage, and a couple could pretend to be wed. Weddings might be held in jest, especially in a tavern. Church authorities sought eventually to prevent clandestine marriages and eliminate rowdy elements from weddings, while the Venetian republic too worked to make simulated or secret marriages impossible. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Trasgressioni: Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII secolo). Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglini . Il Mulino, 2004. Quaderni Storici , 118., 1 ( 2005): Pages 231 - 267.
Year of Publication: 2004.

7. Record Number: 15868
Author(s): Scarabello, Giovanni.
Contributor(s):
Title : Per una storia della prostituzione a Venezia tra il XIII e il XVIII sec [Beginning in the thirteenth century, the Venetian Republic made efforts to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution entirely. By the fourteenth century authorities were trying to concentrate prostitutes in regulated neighborhoods. Nevertheless, prostitutes continued to operate outside these sanctioned areas, especially in taverns and bath houses. Venetian laws protected prostitutes from abusive pimps but also tried to protect their patrons from diseases. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studi Veneziani , 47., ( 2004): Pages 15 - 101.
Year of Publication: 2004.

8. Record Number: 15854
Author(s): D'Acunto, Nicolangelo.
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Title : Santa Giulia e la cultura a Brescia, Brescia, il 11 ottobre 2002 [Founded in the Lombard Period, the monastery of Santa Giulia endured through the Middle Ages as a house of nuns. The Venetians incorporated the monastery into the Observant Congregation of Santa Giustina of Padua in the later Middle Ages. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 55., (giugno 2003): Pages 219 - 223.
Year of Publication: 2003.

9. Record Number: 8071
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Contributor(s):
Title : Public Exposure? Consorts and Ritual in Late Medieval Europe: The Example of the Entrance of the Dogaresse of Venice [The author argues that the ceremonial processions of the wives of the new doges both contained and empowered these women. The ceremonies had something in common with coronation rites and with wedding ceremonies. The peculiar conditions governing the doge's political power meant that dynastic succession (and his consort's fertility) were not issues of concern. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski . Cornell University Press, 2003. Studi Veneziani , 47., ( 2004): Pages 174 - 189.
Year of Publication: 2003.

10. Record Number: 7410
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda and Antje Ziemann
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in the Fourteenth-Century Venetian "Scuole"

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 4 (Winter 2002): Pages 1151 - 1195.
Year of Publication: 2002.

11. Record Number: 10075
Author(s): Knauer, Elfrieda Regina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Portrait of a Lady? Some Reflections on Images of Prostitutes from the Later Fifteenth Century [The author concentrates on a painting of a woman attributed to Jacometto Veneziano (now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art). She argues that the woman is a prostitute, and that the artist emphasizes her thinning hair, wrinkles, and other defects associated with prostitution. The author suggests that the inscription on the back of the panel should be translated as: "The whore dedicated herself to wantonness, license, lewdness." Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 47., ( 2002): Pages 95 - 117.
Year of Publication: 2002.

12. Record Number: 7053
Author(s): Cristellon, Cecilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : La sposa in convento (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458) [Maddalena di Sicilia tried to end her union with Giorgio Zaccarotto by entering a monastery. The case over this marriage was heard by ecclesiastical judges in Padua and Venice. Giorgio based his claim to Maddalena on consummation. Maddalena blamed family pressure that made her lie about her being of sufficient age for sexual relations. Her plea was successful, and she remained a nun. (Additional documentation on CD-ROM accompanying the book). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Matrimoni in dubbio: unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni . Mulino, 2001. Pages 123 - 148.
Year of Publication: 2001.

13. Record Number: 7054
Author(s): Benussi, Paola.
Contributor(s):
Title : Oltre il processo: itinerari di ricerca intorno al matrimonio controverso di Giorgio Zaccarotto e Maddalena di Sicilia (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458) [The archives of San Mattia, Padua, reveal that Maddalena di Sicilia was an illegitimate child naturalized as her father's heir. The girl was married off at age 11 despite her desire to become a nun. In the end, Maddalena stayed at San Mattia as a nun. Gi

14. Record Number: 7055
Author(s): Minnucci, Giovanni.
Contributor(s):
Title : Simpliciter et de plamno, ac sine sterpitu et figura iudicii: il processo di ità matrimoniale vertente Giorgio Zaccarotto e Maddalena di Sicilia (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458): una lettura storico-giuridica [Fantino Dandolo, bishop of Padua, was excluded from the Zaccarotto-di Sicilia case on the grounds that he wanted the girl’s dowry for the Church. Nonetheless, the judge in Venice ruled against the validity of the marriage, and Maddalena remained a nun. Maddalena's age at the time of marriage (11 years old) and proof of Zaccarotto's failure to consummate - despite his claim to the contrary - told in the girl's favor. (Additional documentation on CD-ROM accompanying the book). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

15. Record Number: 7056
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Valori patrizi nel tribunale patriarcale: Girolamo da Mula e Marietta Soranzo (Venezia 1460) [Venetian ecclesiastical tribunals often had to balance canon law and political considerations. Giovanni Gabriel was able to argue successfully the importance of the disparate social stranding of Orsa Dolfin and himself. Girolamo da Mula, however, was unsuccessful in using a similar argument to deny that he was married to Marietta Soranzo. Her family was noble and simply out of favor politically. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

16. Record Number: 5539
Author(s): Baader, Gerhard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy, with Special Reference to Venice

Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 54, 2 (Summer 2001): 389-429. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2001.

17. Record Number: 5540
Author(s): Radke, Gary M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Nuns and Their Art: The Case of San Zaccaria in Renaissance Venice [the nuns of San Zaccaria, mostly of good birth, had a symbiotic relationship with the city of Venice; public and private interests supported the nuns; and they responded by, among other things, patronizing art that was seen by visitors to their church; during the fifteenth century the nuns both redecorated their original church and, in the 1460s, built a new church alongside the old; the nuns not only funded these projects, they supervised the work to see that their wishes were heeded].

Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 54, 2 (Summer 2001): 430-459. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2001.

18. Record Number: 6747
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Getting Back the Dowry: Venice, c. 1360-1530 [the author explores the dowry system for the elite in Venice; he is particularly interested in the relationships within natal and marital families both in terms of widows seeking dowry restitution and for husbands-to-be seeking ways to guarantee their brides' dowries; in both cases the dowry system made women active and vital participants in familial networks].

Source: Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Anne Jackson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 57. Truman State University Press, 2001. Pages 77 - 96. Republished as Getting Back the Dowry. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 95-111.
Year of Publication: 2001.

19. Record Number: 6186
Author(s): Niero, Antonio.
Contributor(s):
Title : La Madonna dei Miracoli nella Storia della Pietà Veneziana: Breve Profilo [in 1409 Francesco Amadi paid for a painting of the Madonna and child with Saints James and Anthony, both protective figures; miraculous powers were soon ascribed to this image; by 1480 enough miracles had been reported to motivate moving the image from its street corner shrine into a church; S. Maria dei Miracoli was built especially to house the image; Sixtus IV and the Patriarch of Venice authorized the foundation of a convent of Poor Clares in conjunction with the image in the 1480s; the first half of the article deals with the origins of the cult in the fifteenth century while the rest of the article considers its later history through the twentieth century].

Source: Studi Veneziani , 40., ( 2000): Pages 179 - 206.
Year of Publication: 2000.

20. Record Number: 6191
Author(s): Gullino, Giuseppe.
Contributor(s):
Title : Un' Eroina Mai Esistita: Anna Erizzo (1470) [Antonio Erizzo died in 1470 fighting the Turkish advance in the Balkans; a legend arose that he had a daughter, Anna, who committed suicide rather than tolerate the sexual advances of the sultan; the tale was embroidered and found its way into drama and opera].

Source: Archivio Veneto Series V , 190., 131 ( 2000): Pages 127 - 134.
Year of Publication: 2000.

21. Record Number: 6192
Author(s): Passolunghi, Pier Angelo.
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Title : Sulla Beata Giuliana di Collalto [the abbess Giuliana di Collalto died in 1262; thereafter she was commemorated in Venetian hagiography and art down to the eighteenth century].

Source: Archivio Veneto Series V , 189., 131 ( 2000): Pages 103 - 111.
Year of Publication: 2000.

22. Record Number: 7063
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Il divorzio di Cateruzza: rappresentazione femminile ed esito processuale (Venezia 1465 [Marriages helped unify the Venetian patriciate, and their dissolution undermined unity. Church courts dealing with dissolution of marriages had to take into account both law and politics. Church courts did not grant separations lightly, demanding evidence of marital failure; and they tried to promote reconciliation of spouses. The charges Cateruzza Vittori brought against her husband included keeping a servant as a concubine and failing to support his stepsons. Cateruzza obtained a rare case in this situation, perhaps because she had strong backing from her family and its connections. Title note supplied by Feminae]

Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni . Il mulino, 2000. Archivio Veneto Series V , 189., 131 ( 2000): Pages 371 - 416.
Year of Publication: 2000.

23. Record Number: 5444
Author(s): Primhak, Victoria.
Contributor(s):
Title : Benedictine Communities in Venetian Society: The Convent of S. Zaccaria [S. Zaccaria was a conventual convent where the nuns did not observe "clausura" and had use of their private incomes; the nuns were able to resist reform because the convent was one of the oldest and most prestigious in the city and welcomed the daughters

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pages 92 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2000.

24. Record Number: 5820
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Donne e scrittura a Venezia nel tardo trecento [Remarkably few personal documents from Venice survive from before the 16th century nor was the Venetian vernacular a developed literary tongue; consequently we have very little material written by Venetian women; Cataruza da Pesaro, however, has left us letters to her brother-in-law; other signs of literacy include legacies of books and a handful of autograph wills].

Source: Archivio Veneto Series V , 187., 130 ( 1999): Pages 5 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.

25. Record Number: 3657
Author(s): Stuard, Susan Mosher.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gravitas and Consumption [The author explores why the "sapientes," the leaders of Venice and Florence, regulated consumption for their wives, daughters and sons but not for themselves].

Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray . Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Archivio Veneto Series V , 189., 131 ( 2000): Pages 215 - 242. Republished in Considering Medieval Women and Gender. Susan Mosher Stuard. Ashgate Variorum, 2010. Chapter IV.
Year of Publication: 1999.

26. Record Number: 3666
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Separations and Separated Couples in Fourteenth-Century Venice [The author studies the cases of sixteen couples; the appendix includes the sources and amounts of dowry and maintenance for each case].

Source: Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe . Cambridge University Press, 1998. Archivio Veneto Series V , 187., 130 ( 1999): Pages 249 - 274.
Year of Publication: 1998.

27. Record Number: 5821
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Donne a Venezia nel XIV secolo: Uno studia sulla loro presenza nella società e nella famiglia [Wills offer us insights into women's lives in 14th-century Venice; these wills are the more revealing because both civil penalties and religious sanctions protected a woman's testamentary freedom; women were the most frequent testators in Venice, helping establish wills as the usual means of disposing of property; and women could witness wills, though the testimony of two women was required to be equal to that of one man; this article traces social patterns by gender, marital status, and class of bequests documented in these Venetial wills; women disposed of dowries and moveable property, thus playing a larger private than public role].

Source: Studi Veneziani , 35., ( 1998): Pages 15 - 88.
Year of Publication: 1998.

28. Record Number: 3663
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Nobility, Women and the State: Marriage Regulation in Venice, 1420-1535

Source: Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe . Cambridge University Press, 1998. Archivio Veneto Series V , 187., 130 ( 1999): Pages 128 - 151. Republished in slightly altered form as Marriage Regulation in Venice, 1420-1535. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 53-75.
Year of Publication: 1998.

29. Record Number: 5682
Author(s): Wolohojian, Stephan S.
Contributor(s):
Title : Francesco di Simone Ferrucci's Fogg "Virgin and Child" and the Martini Chapel in S. Giobbe, Venice [The author argues that Francesco di Simone's large marble relief fills the empty frame of the Martini chapel altarpiece].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 139, 1137 (December 1997): 867-869. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

30. Record Number: 820
Author(s): Chavasse, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Latin Lay Piety and Vernacular Lay Piety in Word and Image: Venice, 1471- Early 1500s [devotion to the Virgin Mary].

Source: Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 10., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 319 - 342.
Year of Publication: 1996.

31. Record Number: 7448
Author(s): Chabot, Isabelle.
Contributor(s):
Title : Risorse e diritti patrimoniali [The Black Death (1348) frequently put wealth into the hands of women by killing off male heirs. Subsequent efforts to limit a daughter's property to her dowry was counterbalanced by inheritance through wills. Roman law gave women an equal claim on an inheritance, but Italian statutes severely limited that right. The cities also were slow to let women inherit where any male heirs existed. Birth families often struggled with husbands over control of the daughter's dowry and had to claim restitution if the husband predeceased the wife. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Il Lavoro delle donne. Edited by Angela Groppi . Storia delle donne in Italia. Editori Laterza, 1996. Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 10., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 47 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1996.

32. Record Number: 7449
Author(s): Greci, Roberto.
Contributor(s):
Title : Donne e corporazioni: La Fluidità di un rapporto [Women played a subordinate role in the Italian urban economy, but they were involved in various trades. They were particularly active in making cloth. Guilds marginalized women, even when women were involved in making goods. Women also played a significant role as innkeepers and small-scale retailers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

33. Record Number: 7450
Author(s): Angiolini, Franco.
Contributor(s):
Title : Schiave [In the Middle Ages, slaves brought into Italy primarily came from the Black Sea region, and most were women. The sixteenth century saw an inversion of the gender ratio, as well as fresh supplies from Africa, the Balkans, and, for a time, Muslim Granada. There also was a shift from domestic to agricultural bondage. Slave women were exploited sexually, but some attained manumission through marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

34. Record Number: 20629
Author(s): Duso, Elena Maria
Contributor(s):
Title : Laura sua al buon Petrarca, a me la mia (CCLVI, 8): Marco Piacentini e l'influsso delle Tre Corone nella costruzione del personaggio femminile [Marco Piacentini's depictions of women drew on Petrarch, including his praise of Laura. Piacentini also drew upon Dante, but he made little use of Boccaccio. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Quaderni Veneti , 23., ( 1996): Pages 85 - 131.
Year of Publication: 1996.

35. Record Number: 3558
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors in Renaissance Venice [The author argues that unmarried male patricians had a lesser status than their brothers who married and became heads of families; nonetheless bachelors shared in the privileges of the patriarchal society including government offices].

Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Quaderni Veneti , 23., ( 1996): Pages 73 - 90. Republished in slightly altered form as Subaltern Patriarchs: Patrician Bachelors. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 244-256.
Year of Publication: 1994.

36. Record Number: 7810
Author(s): Perocco, Daria.
Contributor(s):
Title : Caterina Cornaro nella "Istoria Viniziana" di Pietro Bembo [The Venetian Republic commissioned histories, including one from Pietro Bembo, which were reviewed by the Council of Ten. Bembo's account of Caterina Cornaro sanitizes the Republic's efforts to force her to surrender the Kingdom of Cyprus to Venice. The historical Caterina Cornaro subsequently became a figure of myth and a character in drama. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studi Veneziani , 25., ( 1993): Pages 153 - 167.
Year of Publication: 1993.

37. Record Number: 7059
Author(s): Rosada, Roberta.
Contributor(s):
Title : Per l'identificazione della madre di Pietro bembo [Later testimony about the mother of the humanist Pietro Bembo is confused. Was she a Marcello or a Morosini? The archival evdence shows her called Elena Morosini; but she was closely related to the Marcello family. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Quaderni Veneti , 15., (Giugno 1992): Pages 163 - 172.
Year of Publication: 1992.

38. Record Number: 10281
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Measuring Adulthood: Adolescence and Gender in Renaissance Venice [The article studies the different ways adolescence and adulthood were defined for men and women in renaissance Venice, and argues that graduated adulthood offered both sexes the possibility of varied adult identities. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of Family History , 17., 4 ( 1992): Pages 371 - 395. Republished in slightly altered form as Measuring Adulthood: Adolescence and Gender. By Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pages 185-205.
Year of Publication: 1992.

39. Record Number: 12773
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Marriage Legislation and Patrician Society in Fifteenth-Century Venice [The author discusses the role marriage played in shaping patrician society, and argues that new legislation defined the expectations and limits of the state’s role in marriage in fifteenth-century Venice. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Law, custom, and the social fabric in medieval Europe: essays in honor of Bryce Lyon. Edited by Bernard S. Bachrach and David Nicholas Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1990. Quaderni Veneti , 15., (Giugno 1992): Pages 163 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1990.