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INTRODUCTION; SECTION ONE: SLAYING THE TYRANT, 1536-2011; FOLDER 1: THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS: ITS FASCIST LEGACY; FOLDER 2: HUMANISTIC AND IMPERIAL AMBITION; FOLDER 3: THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS AND ITS IMPERIAL CONTEXT; FOLDER 4: THE TYRANT IN THE FIELD: INTELLIGENCE GATHERING, ECONOMY, AND THE MAINTENANCE OF EMPIRE; FOLDER 5: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMY OF GRAIN; FOLDER 6: SEXUAL POLITICS AND IMPERIAL DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS; FOLDER 7: THE (COM)PASSIONATE HAND. On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de' Medici murdered Alessandro de' Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino's assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into brilliant conversation figures including the Venetian nun and political theorist Archangela Tarabotti, the French feminist writer Hortense Allart, and others in a study that closely examines the material bases-manuscripts, letters, books, archives, and bodies-of writing as generators of social relations that organize and conserve knowledge in particular political arrangements. In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed SHELF LIST 10. THE LIBRARIAN AS POLITICAL ACTOR; GENDER AND THE LIBRARY AS FICTIONS OF RESEARCH; SOCIAL INTERSECTION: 1536-2011, BETWEEN SAN DIEGO, MILAN, ROME, VENICE, FLORENCE, AND PARIS; SECTION THREE: GENDER, ERUDITION, AND THE ITALIAN NATION; ENTER ALLART; LEXICON; CONCLUSION; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. SOCIAL INTERSECTION: 1565-1995, BETWEEN MEXICO CITY, THE MOUNTAINS OF CHIAPAS, BOLOGNA, FRIULI, AND LOS ANGELES; SECTION TWO: WINGS FOR MY COURAGE; SHELF LIST 1. CATALOGUERS, COMPILERS, AND THE STATE; SHELF LIST 2. NOSES/POLITICAL GNOSIS; SHELF LIST 3. GENDER IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY; SHELF LIST 4. CATALOG, CAPITALISM, SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SHELF LIST 5. WORK HABITS, MOVEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTION; SHELF LIST 6. HANDS, INSTRUMENTS OF WRITING; SHELF LIST 7. DEBAUCHERY, ERUDITION; SHELF LIST 8. DAUGHTERS IN THE ORDER OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE; SHELF LIST 9. BIBLIOGRAPHIC CATEGORIES AND ARMIES OF NUNS.
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