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Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

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Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy book

From Sprezzatura to Satire

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

DOI link for Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy book

From Sprezzatura to Satire
ByEugenia Paulicelli
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 17 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546193
Pages 278 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315546193
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Paulicelli, E. (2014). Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546193

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the ’animatedness of clothing,’ author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio’s The Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility and style, this volume complements the existing and important works on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part I: The Cultures of Fashion

chapter 1|48 pages

Moda and Moderno

chapter 2|44 pages

The Book of the Courtier and the Discourse on Fashion: Sprezzatura, Gender, “National Identity”

part |2 pages

Part II: The Fabric of Cities: Nations, Empire in Costume Books by Cesare Vecellio and Giacomo Franco

chapter 3|38 pages

Mapping the World: Dress in Cesare Vecellio’s Costume Books (1590, 1598)

chapter 4|48 pages

Power, History and Dress in Giacomo Franco’s Costume Plates (1610–1614)

part |2 pages

Part III: Beyond Sprezzatura: Fashion as Excess

chapter 5|28 pages

Sister Arcangela Tarabotti: Hair, Wigs and other Vices

chapter 6|20 pages

La Moda and its Technologies: Agostino Lampugnani’s La Carrozza da nolo, ovvero del vestire e usanze alla moda (The rented carriage or of clothing and fashionable habits, 1648–1650)

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