The renaissance of marriage in fifteenth-century Italy - D'Elia, Anthony F., 1967- (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004)
Introduction -- Marriage and wisdom form antiquity to the renaissance -- The revieal of the ancient Epithalanium in courtly weddings -- Weddings as propaganda : rhetoric and court culture -- The culture of marriage and sex in Italian courts -- Humanist criticisms of celibacy adn the reformation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Marriage -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Marriage customs and rites -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Wedding speeches -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Humanism -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.; Renaissance -- Italy; Italy -- Court and courtiers