Professor Ita Mac Carthy's Outputs (12)

Una grazia tutta per sé nelle opere di Tullia d'Aragona (2021)
Book Chapter
Mac Carthy, I. (2021). Una grazia tutta per sé nelle opere di Tullia d'Aragona. In C. Pepe, & E. Porciani (Eds.), Sconfinamenti di genere: donne coraggiose che vivono nei testi e nelle immagini (121-135). DiLBeC Books

The Eloquence of Grace: Raphael’s Study for the Three Graces (2020)
Book Chapter
Mac Carthy, I. (2020). The Eloquence of Grace: Raphael’s Study for the Three Graces. In B. Thomas, & C. Whistler (Eds.), Raphael: Drawing and Eloquence (149-169). Urbino: Accademia Raffaello

The Grace of the Italian Renaissance (2020)
Book
Mac Carthy, I. (2020). The Grace of the Italian Renaissance. Princeton University Press

Fiordispina's English Afterlives: from Harington to Ali Smith (2019)
Book Chapter
Mac Carthy, I. (2019). Fiordispina's English Afterlives: from Harington to Ali Smith. In J. Everson, A. Hiscock, & S. Jossa (Eds.), Ariosto, the 'Orlando furioso' and English Culture. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266502.003.0007

Raphael: The Drawings (2018)
Journal Article
Mac Carthy, I. (2018). Raphael: The Drawings. Renaissance Studies, 32(5), 848-857. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12382

Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture (2017)
Book
Mac Carthy, I., Sellevold, K., & Smith, O. S. (Eds.). (2017). Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture. Legenda

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counter factual scenarios. This brings enormous advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the patholo... Read More about Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture.

Reverse Othello Syndrome by Another Name: Ariosto’s Deluded Hero (2017)
Book Chapter
Mac Carthy, I. (2017). Reverse Othello Syndrome by Another Name: Ariosto’s Deluded Hero. In I. Mac Carthy, K. Sellevold, & O. Smith (Eds.), Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture. Legenda. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16km1n8.5

Renaissance Keywords (2013)
Book
Mac Carthy, I. (Ed.). (2013). Renaissance Keywords. Legenda

Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought about themselves, each... Read More about Renaissance Keywords.

Grace and the “Reach of Art” in Castiglione and Raphael (2009)
Journal Article
Mac Carthy, I. (2009). Grace and the “Reach of Art” in Castiglione and Raphael. Word and Image, 25, 33-45

Ariosto the Lunar Traveller (2009)
Journal Article
Mac Carthy, I. (2009). Ariosto the Lunar Traveller

Ariosto the Traveller (2007)
Journal Article
Mac Carthy, I. (2007). Ariosto the Traveller. Modern Language Review, 102(2), 397-409. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467285

Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando furioso (2007)
Book
Mac Carthy, I. (2007). Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Troubador Press

Overlooked for centuries, the Furioso's declared interest in 'le donne' is, by now, fully recognised. What excites most critical discussion is the poem's double-edged treatment of the subject, since conflicting views of women represent one of its cha... Read More about Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando furioso.