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Collected letters of a Renaissance feminist / transcribed, translated, and edited by Diana Robin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226721582
  • 9780226721583
  • 1281125393
  • 9781281125392
  • 9786611125394
  • 6611125396
Uniform titles:
  • Correspondence. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collected letters of a Renaissance feminist.DDC classification:
  • 001.3/092 B 20
LOC classification:
  • PA85.C4 A4 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Autobiography -- Women and society -- Marriage and mourning -- Woman to woman -- The public lectures -- Dialogue on the death of an ass.
Summary: Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469-1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue-the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index.

Autobiography -- Women and society -- Marriage and mourning -- Woman to woman -- The public lectures -- Dialogue on the death of an ass.

Print version record.

Translated from Latin.

Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469-1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue-the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of.

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