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1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portrait. |
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The other voice in early modern Europe
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; One: Women Patrons; Two: Family Members; Three: Princes and Courtiers; Four: Academics and Literary Friends; Five: Men of the Church; Six: Unknown Correspondents and Humanist Form Letters; Seven: The Public Lectures; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
By the end of the fifteenth 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 Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the central, mediating role she occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. He. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Translations into English.
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Correspondence.
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Translations into English -- Correspondence. |
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558. |
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Venice -- Translations into English.
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Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence.
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources.
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Humanists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence.
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Feminists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence.
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| Chronological Term |
1268-1559 |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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Sources.
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Translations.
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| Added Author |
Robin, Diana Maury.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 2000
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558. Selections. English. 2000. Letters and orations. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000 0226239314 9780226239316 (DLC) 99051321 (OCoLC)42649671 |
| ISBN |
9780226239330 (electronic bk.) |
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0226239330 (electronic bk.) |
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9780226239316 (alk. paper) |
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0226239314 (alk. paper) |
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0226239322 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780226239323 |
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