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INDEX academies: artistic, 17, 282n98; literary, 13, 15– 18, 48, 50, 95–96, 118, 228, 233, 256–58, 282n104 Acciaiuoli, Zanobi, 158, 281n86 Acquaviva, Claudio, 60, 253 Acquaviva, Dorotea, 253 actresses, 4, 8, 48, 95, 111, 113, 275n19. See also performers, noblewomen as Adonis (mythological figure), 40, 79–80, 212 Agnes, Saint, 69, 71, 142 Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, 67, 243 Aiutamicristo, Elisabetta, 253 Alberici, Giacomo, 28 Alberti, Filippo, 270 Albiosi, Ginevra, 253, 296n7 Alcina (in Ariosto), 40, 42, 183–85, 212 Aldobrandini, Cinzio, 8, 339n1 Aleardi, Lodovico, 256 Alessandria (Piedmont), 17, 268 Alighieri, Dante, 62, 64, 127, 205, 231, 234, 298n35, 363n91 allegory: as critical paratext, 7, 201–3; as literary device/mode, 137, 175, 184–85, 204–5, 245, 247, 363n92 Almerici, Paola, 277n43 Amazons, 3, 43, 123, 146, 158–59, 161–62, 275n25, 338nn158–59 Ammanati, Bartolomeo, 59, 281n86 Ancina, Giovanni Giovenale, 56, 65 Andreini, Francesco, 216, 254, 281n87, 317n65 Andreini, Giovanni Battista, 41, 254, 266, 317n65 Andreini, Isabella, xiii, 6–7, 17, 164, 216, 254, 262, 281n87, 323n154; as actress, xvii, 4, 77, 95, 100–101, 111–12, 306n157; critical work on,292–93n236,295n6,316n64,357n15;as lyricpoet,xvii,51–52,54–56,62,76–78,84, 295–96nn5–7;marriage/domesticlifeof, 15–16,281n87;Mirtilla,92,94–103,106, 110–13;pastoralecloguesof,115,117–18; translationsofworksby,xvii,97,102,316n55 Andreini, Virginia, 266 Angaran, Bianca, 264, 295n7 Angeli, Niccolò degli, 123 Angelica (in Ariosto), 137, 182, 201, 204 Angeli da Barga, Pietro, 267 Angelucci, Teodoro, 263, 332n72 Angiolello, Antonmaria, 282n99 Anguissola, Sofonisba, 23–24 anthologies, lyric, 8–9, 52, 251, 295–96n7; religious, 28, 35, 65–66, 70, 227, 289n193 Antoniano, Silvio, 21–22, 254 ‘‘A.P.,’’ 265, 296n7, 297n27 Apollo (mythological figure), 48, 62–63, 153, 209, 211, 235, 275n20, 280n81, 291n223 Apuleius, 154, 200–201, 205 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 214, 220 Arcadia (literary movement), 251 Aretino, Pietro, 242, 244; as model/source, 152, 229, 328n9, 335n120, 364n105, 368n155 Ariosto,Lodovico,37,49,132,159,165–66,168, 289n186,290n207;‘converted’toreligious uses,39–40,136–37;asmodel/source,99, 171,174,179–81,183–84,201–2,204,212; sexandgenderin,42,45,104,113,177–78, 180,212.SeealsoAlcina;Angelica Aristotle, 160, 220–21, 238, 337n154, 356n234; as gender theorist, xiii, 204, 239–40, 346n85; as poetic/rhetorical theorist, 154, 167, 246 428 Index Armani, Vincenza, 95 Armida (in Tasso), 147–48, 183–85, 193, 207– 8, 333n94 art (visual). See ekphrasis artists, female, xvi, 2, 17, 23–24, 275n19, 284– 85n131 Asinari, Federico, 254, 326n186 Asinari, Margherita, 254 Astolfi, Giovanni Felice, 246 Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine), 25, 34, 220, 304n121 Avanzi, Giovanni Maria, 263, 332n72 Avogadro, Paola Virginia, 254 Azzalina, Maria, 254, 295n7 Balcianelli, Marcantonio, 256, 264, 324n162 Baldi, Bernardino, 24–26, 46, 257, 261, 264, 269, 286n152, 304n111 Balducci, Francesco, 270 Barbo, Giovanni Battista, 29, 49, 205, 218, 225, 242, 280n84 Bardi, Francesco, 341n19 Barezzi, Barezzo, 7 Bargagli, Girolamo, 255 Bargagli, Scipione, 245, 268 Barletius, Marinus, 172, 342n33, 342n39 Baroque literary movement, xiv, 47–48, 52–55, 78, 149, 195, 203 Bartoli, Clemente, 254 Bartoli, Minerva, 25, 254 Battiferra, Laura, 5, 15–17, 25, 52, 215, 251, 255, 273n29, 281n86; literary contacts of, 22, 36, 300n53; 301n77; as religious poet, 35, 55– 56, 59–62, 64–65, 158, 286n152, 304n120, 312n2; as secular poet, 3, 76, 86, 94, 116–18 beauty: female, 46, 53, 70–72, 185, 194–95, 238; male, 124, 187–88, 193–94, 348n115; saintly, 40, 70–72, 147–49, 155. See also Adonis; Narcissus; Neoplatonism Beccari, Agostino, 113 Beccaria, Angela Bianca, 9–10 Bellinzona, Gherardo, 282n99 Bembo, Pietro, 24, 33, 46, 52, 72, 77, 249, 298n35, 300n56 Bendinelli, Antonio, 12, 255 Bendinelli, Scipione, 12, 255, 303n102 Bendinelli, Silvia, 2, 12, 255, 296n7, 303n102 Benedict, Saint, 39, 44, 143, 291n223 Benigni, Ippolita, 15, 17, 255, 295n7 Bergalli, Luisa, 60, 251, 300n54, 370n6 Bergamo, 8, 256, 261, 265, 268 Bernal, Beatriz, 87, 165, 339n4, 345n75 Bernardi, Leonora, 2, 24, 31, 255–56, 275n19, 285n131, 296n7, 312n2; as lyric poet, 56, 66–68, 252; Tragicomedia pastorale, 93, 97– 99, 101, 107–9, 113–15, 310–11n203, 318n81, 338n154, 355n226 Bertani, Barbara, 256 Bertani, Lucia, 255 Betussi, Giuseppe, 1, 248 Bible: as source/inspiration for literature, 33– 35, 37–38, 62–64, 131–41, 151–54, 157–60, 229–30. See also canticles; censorship; psalms/psalm translations Bigolina, Giulia, 2, 87, 104, 218, 274n7 Binaschi, Filippo, 257, 278n61 Bobali, Savino, 255 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 32, 125–26, 154, 199, 218, 221...

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