The Medici Archive Project (MAP) is an independent research institute whose aim is to preserve and valorize the archives of the Medici dynasty, which comprise over fifteen million documents (many of them are featured in the MIA DATABASE). MAP also serves as a major academic hub for scholars and students worldwide in the field of Italian Renaissance and early modern studies.
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance examines the evolving figure of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to widowed women writers of the sixteenth century. Drawing on scholarship on gender, emotion, mourning, and community, it argues that widows served both as powerful models for living after loss and as figures of social anxiety whose public grief challenged civic stability. As such, widows are central to understanding community and civic life in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance. Anna Wainwright is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance examines the evolving figure of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to widowed women writers of the sixteenth century. Drawing on scholarship on gender, emotion, mourning, and community, it argues that widows served both as powerful models for living after loss and as figures of social anxiety whose public grief challenged civic stability. As such, widows are central to understanding community and civic life in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance. Anna Wainwright is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Individuals who join Friends of MAP share in the thrill of historical discovery thanks to special experiences reserved just for them, including the MAP Forum (our online lecture series), and a host of other features such as weekly free lessons in reading Italian documents called “Friday Lunch Letters.”
