An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Stephen.

Series:

Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

This anthology showcases a diverse collection of Neo-Latin texts by female authors from approximately 1390 to 1750, highlighting women's contributions to Latin literature during this period.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women

Women's writing in Latin

The women writers in this anthology

Editorial conventions and principles

Notes

Bibliography

1 Scholarly Shepherd(ess) An Eclogue by Angela Nogarola (c. 1375-1447) on Milanese Politics

Introduction

Source of Latin text

Latin text and English translationa

Commentary

2 A Sisterly Exchange Two Latin Letters between Anna and Battista Malatesta da Montefeltro (d. 1434 and 1448)

Table of correspondence

Latin texts and English translations

3 Costanza da Varano (1428-47) Politics and Poetry

4 The Lüne Letter Books (1460-1550) A Letter by Elizabeth Schack

Latin text and English translation

5 A Female Writer and Her Husband Margarete Welser (1481-1552), Ad Christophorum Fratrem Epistola

6 A Celebration of Victory Veronica Gambara (1485-1550), Auspicata Victoria Caesaris

7 A Vision of the Future Luisa Sigea (1522-60), Syntra

8 Elegies to Poets by Camille de More l(1547-?1611)

Latin texts and English translations.

Commentary

9 'To Have Learned the Latin Language Will Do Me Absolutely No Harm' Johanna Otho (c. 1549-c. 1621), De Studio Virginitatis

10 Two Latin Poetic Praises of the Carmelite Monastery of Santa Cruz Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda (1595-1644), Soledades de Buçaco, fol. 114r-116r

Introduction*

11 A Poetess at the Counter-Reformation Martha Marchina (1600-46), Musa Posthuma

12 Royalist Panegyric Rachel Jevon (bapt. 1627-after 1662), on the Restoration of the Monarchy under Charles II

13 Elegies of a Learned Woman Poems by Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78)

14 The Life and Learning of Anne Margrete Bredal (1655-1729)

15 Elisabeth Koolaart-Hoofman (1664-1736) In Imitation of Horace's Odes and Ovid's Heroides

16 Pastoral Inter Arcades Caterina Imperiale Pallavicina (fl. 1721), De Aranea in Lauro, Epigrammata (I-III)

17 A Girl Prodigy in Enlightened Milan Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), Propositiones Philosophicae.

Introduction

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-350-55109-0

9781350551091

OCLC:

1586551874