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"In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times"--Provided by publisher "Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments in poetry and prose, and visual representations in every medium. In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. Used, for example, as an icon of Roman imperial power, papal authority, and the distance between the present and the past, the she-wolf has also served as an allegory for greed, good politics, excessive female sexuality, and, most recently, modern, multi-cultural Rome. Mazzoni engagingly analyzes the various role guises of the she-wolf over time in the first comprehensive study in any language on this subject"--Provided by publisher Angry and hungry beasts in pascarella, trilussa, and bellisexy and political she-wolves in verga, mussolini, and the bombs of 1993; how to suckle the she-wolf without getting bitten; part iii the she-wolf in art; chapter 7 antiquity; mammary meanings in the she-wolf's visual representation; interpreting the nursing beast on the mirror of bolsena; the she-wolf as protector of the living and the dead; the domestication of females on the ara pacis; context and the she-wolf's meanings; chapter 8 middle ages and renaissance; recycling the she-wolf and the diptych of rambona. SHE-WOLF; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: ROME AND THE SHE-WOLF; PART I THE CAPITOLINE SHE-WOLF; CHAPTER 1 ANTIQUITY; A SHE-WOLF AMONG ROME'S ANIMALS; UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTING THE LUPA CAPITOLINA; THE LUPA'S IDENTITY IN CICERO AND LIVY; ROMULUS AND REMUS BETWEEN RIVALRY AND COOPERATION; RESTORATION AND THE LUPAS AGE; CHAPTER 2 MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE; THE LUPA AS SYMBOL OF POWER AT THE LATERAN; MASTER GREGORY AND OTHER MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PAGAN LUPA; THE SHE-WOLF AND THE SEVERED HANDS. The language of historians and the mother's tonguelicking lines into shape like a she-wolf her cubs; the she-wolf between wildness and prostitution; chapter 5 middle ages and renaissance; misogyny and the she-wolf from tertullian to masuccio; dantes beast and the allegory of greed; petrarch's she-wolf as the metonym of loss; du bellay's parable of the she-wolfs death; milk, water, and a she-wolf fountain; chapter 6 modern and contemporary times; the she-wolf and the meaning of history in wordsworth and macaulay; rome as a she-wolf for nievo, carducci, and d'annunzio. The lupa's move from the lateran to the capitolinethe hall of the she-wolf at the capitoline museum; chapter 3 modern and contemporary times; viewing the lupa with nineteenth-century visitors; the english and the american byron address the lupa; gift she-wolves in the twentieth century; fraternal relations in komunyakaas "remus and romulus"; the lupa capitolina in contemporary guidebooks; part ii writing about the she-wolf; chapter 4 antiquity; the nursing she-wolf and the goddess of suckling; mother's milk and poet's milk in propertiuss elegies. The roman nurse as allegorical pedestal in perugia and sienathe river and the she-wolf in bologna and the quattro fontane; metaphor and symbol in rubenss romulus and remus; the she-wolf's empty pelt on a renaissance map; chapter 9 modern and contemporary times; the neoclassical she-wolves of valadier and pinelli; the tamed she-wolves of fascist iconography; women and men in the pose of the she-wolf; jackson pollocks layered she-wolf; kristin jones's ephemeral she-wolves; conclusion: the live wolves of rome; bibliography; index.
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