Selected writings of an eighteenth-century Venetian woman of letters / Elisabetta Caminer Turra ; edited and translated by Catherine M. Sama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caminer Turra, Elisabetta, 1751-1796.

Contributor:

Sama, Catherine M.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caminer Turra, Elisabetta, 1751-1796--Correspondence.

Caminer Turra, Elisabetta.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer participated in important debates on capital punishment, freedom of the press, and the abuse of clerical power. She also helped spread Enlightenment ideas into Italy by promoting and publishing Voltaire's latest works and translating new European plays-plays she herself directed, to great applause, on Venetian stages. Bringing together Caminer's letters, poems, and journalistic writings, nearly all published for the first time here, Selected Writings offers readers an intellectual biography of this remarkable figure as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence with the most prominent thinkers of her day. But more important, Selected Writings provides insight into the passion that animated Caminer's fervent reflections on the complex and shifting condition of women in her society-the same passion that pushed her to succeed in the male-dominated literary professions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editors' Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Volume Editor's Introduction

Volume Editor's Bibliography

Part I. The Making of a Woman of Letters in the Eighteenth-Century Veneto

Part II. Women and Society. The Intellectual Life

Series Editors' Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.

ISBN:

9786611126100

9781281126108

1281126101

9780226817699

0226817695

OCLC:

476229140