Hopeless love

Mary-Michelle DeCoste

earliest edition we have, 2009 University of Toronto Press, 2009 165 pages

Toronto Italian studies

"Hopeless Love explores a number of texts that are significant to an understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Focusing on two major Italian works, Mary-Michele DeCoste uses feminist and queer theory to read the story of the maiden warrior Bradamante and the princess Piordispina, as related in the last tale of Boiardo's apparently unfinished Orlando innamorato (1494) and an episode that appears a...

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Hopeless Love edition · 2024 · University of Toronto Press · 192 pages · 9781487565176
Hopeless Love edition · 2016 · University of Toronto Press · 9781442697447
Hopeless love edition · 2009 · University of Toronto Press · 165 pages · 9780802096845

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