The essay outlines the story of Zenobia Gonzaga, who was Princess of Guastalla and first wife of Giovanni Aragona Pignatelli, Prince of Castelvetrano but, above all, a prominent member of the Sicilian and Neapolitan aristocracy in the early seventeenth century� The aim of the essay is to understand, through the lens of her life, why some noble women, somehow considered to be devoid of the usual virtues of noblesse, faded into obscurity� Even more importantly, the essay sets out to prove how the reinterpre- tation of some episodes of their lives was more than a mere adaptation of their stories by the bourgeois nineteenth century, but more profoundly an expression of conflicts, tensions and alliances among the aristocracy of the age, which mirrored the changes and evolution of Italian and Spanish politics�
Y si la nobleza femenina es sin virtud? El caso de Zenobia Gonzaga entre historia y representación,
Scalisi Lina
2021-01-01
Abstract
The essay outlines the story of Zenobia Gonzaga, who was Princess of Guastalla and first wife of Giovanni Aragona Pignatelli, Prince of Castelvetrano but, above all, a prominent member of the Sicilian and Neapolitan aristocracy in the early seventeenth century� The aim of the essay is to understand, through the lens of her life, why some noble women, somehow considered to be devoid of the usual virtues of noblesse, faded into obscurity� Even more importantly, the essay sets out to prove how the reinterpre- tation of some episodes of their lives was more than a mere adaptation of their stories by the bourgeois nineteenth century, but more profoundly an expression of conflicts, tensions and alliances among the aristocracy of the age, which mirrored the changes and evolution of Italian and Spanish politics�I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
