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Author King, Margaret L., 1947-

Title Her immaculate hand : selected works by and about the women humanists of Quattrocento Italy / edited by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr
Published Binghamton, N.Y. : Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, 1983

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Description 167 pages ; 25 cm
Series Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies ; v. 20
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 20
Contents Part I : Women in the public arena -- Letter to Jacopo dal Verme / Maddalena Scrovegni -- Oration to the Emperor Sigismund / Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta -- Oration to Bianca Maria Visconti Oration to the people of Camerino / Costanza Varano -- Oration in honor of her mother Bianca Maria, Duchess of Milan Oration to Pope Pius II in the Consistory of Cardinals, Mantua, 1459 / Ippolita Sforza -- Oration to the ruler of Venice, Francesco Venerio, on the arrival of the Queen of Poland / Cassandra Fedele -- Part II : Women on women and learning -- Letter to Cecilia Gonzaga Letter to Isotta Nogarola / Costanza Varano -- Of the equal or unequal sin of Adam and Eve / Isotta Nogarola -- Oration for Bertucio Lamberto, receiving the honors of the liberal arts ; -- Oration in praise of letters / Cassandra Fedele -- Letter to Augustinus Aemilius, Curse against the ornamentation of women Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, Defense of the liberal instruction of women Letter to Lucilia Vernacula, Against women who disparage learned women / Laura Cereta -- (a) Alessandra Scala to Cassandra (b) Cassandra to Alessandra / Cassandra Fedele -- Part III : Men to women -- Letter to the virgin Cecilia Gonzaga, On fleeing this worldly life / Gregorio Correr -- Letter to Costanza Barbaro, his daughter / Francesco Barbaro -- Letter to Isotta Nogarola / Laura Quirini -- Letter to Isotta Nogarola / Ludovico Foscarini -- Letter to Silvestro Cereta, father of Laura Cereta Letter to Laura Cereta / Fra Tommaso of Milan -- Encomium to Cassandra Fedele / Angelo Poliziano -- Letter to Cassandra Fedele / Girolamo Campagnola
Notes Includes index
Translation from Latin
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [154]-159
Includes index
Subject Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence.
English literature -- Translations from Latin (Medieval and modern)
Humanists -- Italy.
Humanists -- Italy -- Sources.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Italy -- Translations into English.
Renaissance -- Italy -- Sources.
Renaissance -- Sources.
Women intellectuals -- Italy -- History.
Women -- Italy -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Sources
Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- Sources.
SUBJECT Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888
Author King, Margaret L., 1947-
Rabil, Albert, Jr.
LC no. 82012424
ISBN 0866980237