Introduction / Janet Levarie Smarr
Venetia figurata and women in sixtennth-century Venice: Moderata Fonte's writings / Paola Malpezzi Price
Courtesans, celebrity and print culture in Renaissance Venice: Tullia d'Aragona, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco / Diana Robin
Florence and the feminine / Mary Kisler
Women and Ernest speech in Renaissance theater / Jane Tylus
A myth reclaimed: Rome in twentieth-century women's writings / Angela M. Jeannet
"I'm from Trento": the cities of "Senso" / Ernesto Livorni
A "plebian nymph" in Naples": "representational spaces" and labyrinth in Domenico Rea's Ninfa plebea / Roberta Morosini
Where East meets West: Giuliana Moradini's Mitteleuropean trilogy / Daria Valentini
"Urban winter landscape with female figures": representations of space in Fausta Cialente's Un inverno freddissimo / Davide Papotti
Contextualizing marginality: urban landscape and female communities in Cesare Pavese's Among women only / Vincenzo Binetti
Oretese's Naples: urban malaise through a visionary gaze / Andrea Baldi.
