The contest for knowledge : debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Gaetana Agnesi ... [et al.] and the Accademia de' ricovrati ; edited and translated by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen ; with an introduction by Rebecca Messbarger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, Author.

Contributor:

Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 1718-1799.

Messbarger, Rebecca Marie.

Findlen, Paula.

Accademia di Padova.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education--Italy--History--18th century--Sources.

Women.

Women--Italy--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources.

Women--Italy--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.

Education--Italy--History--18th century--Sources.

Education.

Italy--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources.

Italy.

Italy--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.

Contents:

Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola

The Academy of the Ricovrati

Aretafila Savini de' Rossi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Diamante Medaglia Faini.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611125264

9781281125262

1281125261

9780226010564

0226010562

OCLC:

476229395