Review of the volume Speaking the Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy, edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Carlo Lottieri, Special Issue of "Annali d'Italianistica", 2016, 448 pp., ISSN 0741-7527.

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Abstract

This is a book review of an important recent book consisting of 18 chapters dedicated to figures in Italian history and culture who challenged authority in its various guises, especially political and religious. It includes canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ruzante, Tasso and Manzoni but also less-well-known dissident figures like the Venetian nun Arcangela Tarabotti and the polemicist Giovanni Guareschi. In a broader perspective it dedicates studies to soldiers in the trenches in the First World War and the female rice-workers in Lombardy in the 20th century.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)338-340
Number of pages3
JournalItalian Studies
Volume72
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jul 2017

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