Letters and orations / Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin.
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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Latin |
| Published: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000. |
| Series: | Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| 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. He. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portrait |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226239330 0226239330 9780226239316 0226239314 1281125547 9781281125545 9786611125547 661112554X |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |