The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the Editors......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
List of Illustrations......Page 16
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture......Page 25
Part 1 Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature......Page 37
Chapter 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega......Page 39
Chapter 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300–1770......Page 77
Chapter 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence......Page 173
Chapter 5 ‘Who, Then, is the “Nympha”?’ An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes......Page 201
Part 2 Literary Representations......Page 217
Chapter 6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento......Page 219
Chapter 7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power to Bind: Lia’s Role in Boccaccio’s Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine......Page 249
Chapter 8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics......Page 262
Chapter 9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society’s Nymphs......Page 289
Part 3 Garden Architecture......Page 327
Chapter 10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti’s Villa at Lainate......Page 329
Chapter 11 Nymphs Bathing in the King’s Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta......Page 361
Part 4 Music......Page 395
Chapter 12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music around 1500......Page 397
Chapter 13 The Nymph’s Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self......Page 420
Part 5 Aetiology and Antiquarianism......Page 443
Chapter 14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry......Page 445
Chapter 15 Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism......Page 469
Index Nominum......Page 487