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Author Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466.

Title Complete writings : letterbook, dialogue on Adam and Eve, orations / Isotta Nogarola ; edited and translated by Margaret L. King and Diana Robin.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 226 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Contents Kin, friends, and books (1434/37) -- Guarino's circle (1436/38) -- Venice and beyond (1438/39) -- Damiano (1438/41) -- The book-lined cell (1441/early 1450s) -- Ludovico (1451/66) -- The great gender debate (1451) -- The black swan : two orations for Ermolao Barbaro (1453) -- Pope Pius II and the Congress of Mantua (1459) -- The consolation for Marcello and the Friuli connection (1461) -- Appendix A : Concordance between Abel edition and the King/Robin translation -- Appendix B : A chronological list of sources cited by Isotta Nogarola.
Summary Renowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated republic of letters, Nogarola served as a crucial role model for generations of aspiring female artists and writers. This volume presents English translations of all of Nogarola's extant works and highlights just how daring and original her convictions were. In her letters and orations, Nogarola elegantly synthesized Greco-
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Subject Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Translations into English.
Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466.
Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Correspondence.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Women -- Italy -- Verona -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Italy.
Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence.
Humanists.
Women -- Italy -- Correspondence.
Women.
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1268-1559
Subject Verona (Italy) -- History -- Sources.
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Verona (Italy) -- History.
Chronological Term 500-1559
Genre/Form Sources.
Electronic books.
History.
Records and correspondence.
Translations.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author King, Margaret L., 1947-
Robin, Diana Maury.
Added Title Works. English. 2004 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003048634
Other Form: Print version: Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466. Works. English. 2004. Complete writings. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004 0226590070 9780226590073 (DLC) 2003018991 (OCoLC)52948854
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