Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: comptes rendus 199 persona" (11).Nevertheless, the image of her abdication is the one most widely disseminated after her death.In the interests of full disclosure, I will add that I wrote my MA thesis on Caterina Corner and her villa complex at Altivole.Although it was a good thesis, it did not adequately speak to the complex cultural imbrications between Venice and the Ottoman Turks that Caterina assimilated into, and projected onto, her identity.Hurlburt's key project here is to identify Caterina's own agency and voice in the uneasy contemporary, and even current, polemics of east and west.Hurlburt admits, in her introduction, that this is not easy; it requires conjecture and suggestion based on the piecemeal nature of the remaining documentary evidence.If there are times when Hurlburt reads rather too much into too little-with ample use of "may, " "might, " "perhaps, " and, at least once, "We can only imagine" (200)-the rich context she provides and the excellence of her writing make such conjecture plausible.
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2762898718