| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portrait |
| Series |
The other voice in early modern Europe |
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Translations into English
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Correspondence
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Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 fast |
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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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Humanists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
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Feminists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Feminists
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Humanists
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Intellectual life
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources
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Italy
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Italy -- Venice
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
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Sources
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robin, Diana Maury.
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| ISBN |
9780226239330 |
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0226239330 |
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9780226239316 |
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0226239314 |
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1281125547 |
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9781281125545 |
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9786611125547 |
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661112554X |
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