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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance By Anna Wainwright Material:Soft Cover life is a parade ofWidow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the ever evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth centuryincluding Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, and Francesca Turinaand radically changed the conversation on public mourning. Engaging with