Giulia Cardillo is associate professor of Italian and coordinator of the Italian Program at James Madison University.Eleonora Buonocore is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Calgary.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword, by Jane TylusIntroduction. Literary Mothers and Sisters in Pre-Modern Italian Literature, by Eleonora Buonocore and Giulia CardilloChapter 1. Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Caterina da Siena’s Creation of an Elective Family Through Letters, by Eleonora BuonocoreChapter 2. Rooting and Uprooting. The Pear Tree as Female Intellect in Bigolina's Urania, by Anna MarraChapter 3. Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini’s Mirtilla, by Simona LorenziniChapter 4. Misandry and Effeminacy among Seventeenth-Century Female Polemicists: Fonte, Marinella, Tarabotti, and Costa, by Sara E. DíazChapter 5. In Marmi o in Carte: Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli on Art and Poetry, by Giulia CardilloChapter 6. Found in Translation: Bianca Milesi Mojon’s Maria Edgeworth, by Raffaella LeproniAbout the Contributors

Giulia Cardillo is associate professor of Italian and coordinator of the Italian Program at James Madison University.Eleonora Buonocore is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Calgary.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword, by Jane TylusIntroduction. Literary Mothers and Sisters in Pre-Modern Italian Literature, by Eleonora Buonocore and Giulia CardilloChapter 1. Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Caterina da Siena’s Creation of an Elective Family Through Letters, by Eleonora BuonocoreChapter 2. Rooting and Uprooting. The Pear Tree as Female Intellect in Bigolina's Urania, by Anna MarraChapter 3. Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini’s Mirtilla, by Simona LorenziniChapter 4. Misandry and Effeminacy among Seventeenth-Century Female Polemicists: Fonte, Marinella, Tarabotti, and Costa, by Sara E. DíazChapter 5. In Marmi o in Carte: Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli on Art and Poetry, by Giulia CardilloChapter 6. Found in Translation: Bianca Milesi Mojon’s Maria Edgeworth, by Raffaella LeproniAbout the Contributors