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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
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 226 pages)
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
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-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
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Subject Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Translations into English
Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 fast
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English
Women -- Italy -- Verona -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence
Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence
Women -- Italy -- Correspondence
RELIGION -- Agnosticism.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Humanists
Intellectual life
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Women
Women -- Middle Ages
Humanistes -- Italie -- Correspondance.
SUBJECT Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources
Verona (Italy) -- History -- Sources
Subject Italy
Italy -- Verona
Italie -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1268-1559 -- Histoire -- Sources.
Vérone (Italie) -- 15e siècle -- Histoire -- Sources.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author King, Margaret L., 1947-
Robin, Diana Maury.
ISBN 9780226590097
0226590097
9780226590073
0226590070
9780226590080
0226590089
1281125946
9781281125941
9786611125943
6611125949
Other Titles Works. English. 2004