Letters and orations / Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558.

Contributor:

Robin, Diana Maury.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

Other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558--Translations into English.

Fedele, Cassandra.

Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558--Correspondence.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy--Venice--Translations into English.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern).

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy--Venice--Correspondence.

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Humanists--Italy--Venice--Correspondence.

Humanists.

Feminists--Italy--Venice--Correspondence.

Feminists.

Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559--Sources.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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. 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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index.

ISBN:

9786611125547

9781281125545

1281125547

9780226239330

0226239330

OCLC:

476228649