Culture, Independence, and Politics
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- S&F Online: Scholar & Feminist Online
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Brizio, Elena
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, dagelijks leven, sociale verhoudingen, historisch, Italië, 16e eeuw
- Description
- In this essay the author intends to identify several women named in Girolamo Bargagli’s 1572 Sienese parlor-game book Dialogo de’ giuochi che nelle vegghie sanesi si usano di fare (Dialogue of the games that are usually played in Sienese meetings). The Dialogo, while an imagined exchange and not a historical record, is a significant archival source because of the prominence Bargagli gives to the surnames of many of its women protagonists. Using these surnames, and own archival work on Sienese women from the beginning of the sixteenth century up to the 1570s the aithor aims to establish the historical identities behind the names in the Dialogo. These women left notable traces through Siena’s history and in some cases its poetry as well. In addition to identifying them, the author will retrace their social lives and cultural engagement, paying particular attention to their families, community, and personal connections.