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Poems and Selected Letters
Häftad, 1999
366 kr
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Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual …
Selected Poetry and Prose
A Bilingual Edition
Häftad, 2007
413 kr
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Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though without formal training, Matraini excelled …
Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
Av Francois Poullain de la Barre
Inbunden, 2002
874 kr
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One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the 19th century, Francois Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question", Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly "self-evident" inequality …
Complete Poems
The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition
Av Gaspara Stampa, Troy Tower m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
561 kr
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Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early eighteenth century. Her poetry runs the gamut …
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Av Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Albert Rabil Jr.
Häftad, 1996
344 kr
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Originally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and …
Debate of the Romance of the Rose
Häftad, 2010
561 kr
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In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate …
Contest for Knowledge
Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Av Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Diamante Medaglia Faini m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
290 kr
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At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, …
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Av Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Albert Rabil Jr.
Inbunden, 1996
985 kr
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Originally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and …
Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle
An Anthology: A Bilingual Edition
Av Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati
Häftad, 2006
403 kr
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Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, …
Urania
A Romance
Häftad, 2005
403 kr
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Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for …
Flori, a Pastoral Drama
A Bilingual Edition
Av Maddalena Campiglia, Virginia Cox m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
403 kr
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One of the first pastoral dramas published by an Italian woman, Flori is Maddalena Campiglia's most substantial surviving literary work and one of the earliest known examples of secular dramatic writing by a woman in Europe. Although acclaimed in her day, Campiglia (1553-95) has not benefited from …
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
Inbunden, 1997
910 kr
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This is a collection of the letters of Laura Cereta (1469-1499), which present feminist issues in a predominantly male environment. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy, and in them she explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. Cereta …
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
Häftad, 1997
436 kr
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This is a collection of the letters of Laura Cereta (1469-1499), which present feminist issues in a predominantly male environment. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy, and in them she explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. Cereta …
Sonnets for Michelangelo
A Bilingual Edition
Inbunden, 2005
985 kr
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The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal, she was praised both for her impeccable command …
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love
Häftad, 1997
264 kr
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First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual …
Spiritual Sonnets
A Bilingual Edition
Häftad, 2003
354 kr
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Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca. 1550-86) married a prominent statesman in 1570. Widowed three years later, with two young daughters to raise, Coignard turned to writing devotional verse to help her cope with her practical and spiritual struggles.Spiritual Sonnets …
Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain
A Bilingual Edition
Häftad, 2007
299 kr
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During a pivotal period in Spanish history, aristocrat Maria de Guevara (?-1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women in the court's decision making. "Treaty" gave Philip IV practical suggestions …
Selected Poems and Translations
A Bilingual Edition
Häftad, 2007
633 kr
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Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-96), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l'Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her …
Inquisition of Francisca
A Sixteenth-Century Visionary on Trial
Häftad, 2005
299 kr
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Inspired by a series of visions, Francisca de los Apostoles (1539-after 1578) and her sister Isabella attempted in 1573 to organize a beaterio, a lay community of pious women devoted to the religious life, to offer prayers and penance for the reparation of human sins, especially those of corrupt …
Selected Writings
A Bilingual Edition
Häftad, 2008
373 kr
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Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. An astute politician and diligent humanist, she was a champion of gender equality and the evangelical reform movement, which recognized that the clergy was more concerned with …
Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin
Häftad, 2004
571 kr
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Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentiere's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the …
Story of Sapho
Häftad, 2003
304 kr
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Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume novels were popular best-sellers in her time, translated almost immediately into English, German, …
Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues
Häftad, 2004
372 kr
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Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her …
Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere
A Novel
Inbunden, 2004
985 kr
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Known as Madame de Villedieu, Marie-Catherine Desjardins (1640-83) was a prolific writer who played an important role in the evolution of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living, she defied cultural convention by becoming an innovator and appealing to popular …
Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere
A Novel
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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Known as Madame de Villedieu, Marie-Catherine Desjardins (1640-83) was a prolific writer who played an important role in the evolution of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living, she defied cultural convention by becoming an innovator and appealing to popular …
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
Av Emilie Du Chatelet, Judith P. Zinsser
Häftad, 2009
488 kr
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Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton's "Principia Mathematica" that is still the …
Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes
Av Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Rene Descartes
Häftad, 2007
402 kr
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Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth and reveals her …
Letters and Orations
Inbunden, 2000
910 kr
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By the end of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope …
Letters and Orations
Häftad, 2000
299 kr
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By the end of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope …
Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint
Av Cecilia Ferrazzi, Anne Jacobson Schutte
Häftad, 1996
172 kr
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Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her …
