Agostino Valier, Instituzione d'ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane
Edited by Francesco Lucioli
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 1 June 2015 • 180pp ISBN: 978-1-781881-01-9 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781882-33-7 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR The first modern edition of the Instituzione d’ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane (1575), and the Ricordi di Monsignor Agostino Valier Vescovo di Verona lasciati alle monache nella sua visitazione fatta l’anno del santissimo Giubileo 1575 (1575) by Cardinal Agostino Valier (Venice, 7 April 1531 – Rome, 23 May 1606). The Instituzione includes three texts meant respectively for unmarried women, widows, and married women (Del modo di vivere delle vergini che si chiamano demesse; Della vera e perfetta viduità; Instruzione delle donne maritate), while the Ricordi is a book for nuns on monastic life. The texts by Agostino Valier are an important example of conduct literature for and about women in Counter-Reformation Italy. Contents include: a historical introduction to the author and his works; the Italian texts with notes; an index of names cited in the treatises; a bibliography. Francesco Lucioli is Jean-François Malle Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Lucioli, Francesco (ed.), Agostino Valier, Instituzione d'ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane, Critical Texts, 43 (MHRA, 2015) First footnote reference: 35 Agostino Valier, Instituzione d'ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane, ed. by Francesco Lucioli, Critical Texts, 43 (MHRA, 2015), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Lucioli, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Lucioli, Francesco (ed.). 2015. Agostino Valier, Instituzione d'ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane, Critical Texts, 43 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Lucioli 2015: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Lucioli 2015: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Agostino-Valier-Instituzione-dogni-stato-lodevole-delle-donne-cristiane www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-43 |