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LETTERS AND ORATIONS
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Cassandra Fedele, Diana Robin (Editor), Diana Robin (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
0226239322 |
ISBN 13: |
9780226239323 |
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Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 June, 2000 |
Edition: |
2nd ed. |
Series: |
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe 2000 |
Pages: |
208 |
Translated from: |
Italian |
Description: |
By the end of the 15th century Cassandra Fedele was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. This collection of letters reveals the central, mediating role Cassandra Fedele occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. |
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By the end of the 15th 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. Her unique admittance into this community is also highlighted by her presence as the first independent woman writer in Italy to speak publicly and, more importantly, the first to address philosophical, political and moral issues in her own voice. Her three public orations and almost all of her letters, translated into English, are presented here for the first time. |
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University of Chicago Press |
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