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This month’s book:

HICKS Peter, COLESANTI Massimo (ed.), BUONTEMPO Giampaolo, Napoleon – Women: Political Players, Allies, Enemies (in Italian and French)


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Description: This collection of articles and essays, the proceedings of the conference that took place in Rome in November, 2006, covers Napoleon Bonaparte's relationship with the important women in his life, as well as more generally the role of women in society during the 19th century. Contributors to the publication include Roberta Martinelli (Elisa Bonaparte and her governing of Lucca), Giulia Gorgone (the political role of the Parisian salons during the First Empire), Peter Hicks (the myth of Letizia Ramolino, Napoleon's mother), and Bernard Chevallier (a comparative study of Napoleon's two wives: Joséphine de Beauharnais and Marie-Louise of Austria).
 
Contents:
 
Napoleone, le donne: protagoniste, alleate, nemiche
 
Un convegno al femminile? Per una introduzione, by Massimo Colesanti
 
Protagoniste: affetti e intrighi
Il mito di Letizia, by Peter Hicks
Deux femmes pour un empereur: Joséphine et Marie-Louise, by Bernard Chevallier
1805-1814: echi imperiali a Lucca, by Roberta Martinelli
Carolina, la sorella preferita dell'imperatore, by Renata de Lorenzo
 
Un'amanta, una nemica
Maria Walewska tra mito e realtà, by Krzystof Żaboklicki
Mme de Staël: dalle Circostances actuelles alle Considérations sur la Révolution française, by Lucia Omacini
 
Società e condizioni
Le "salonnières". Il ruolo politico dei salotti nella Parigi del Primo Impero, by Giulia Gorgone
Il corpo e la mente. Donne di lettere e lettrici nella Francia napoleonica, by Veronica Granata
L'educazione delle principessine Bonaparte, by Antonietta Angelica Zucconi
La condizione giuridica della donna nel Code Napoléon, by Benito Proietto

Place and publisher: Rome: Storia e Letteratura

Date of publication: 2009

Number of pages: 236


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