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In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
Letters on Natural Philosophy
The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her...
Convent Paradise
The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is...
Antisatire
In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni
Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and...
From Arcadia to Revolution
The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was...
Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples
Letters and Orations
This volume presents in translation 100 previously unknown letters of Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–1488), daughter of...
Letters to Her Sons, 1447–1470
The seventy-three surviving letters written by Florentine widow, Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi (c.1406–1471), to her distant sons first...
The Pleasant Nights
In Giovan Francesco Straparola’s The Pleasant Nights, a group of men and women gather together in a...
Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna
The Bolognese nun Diodata Malvasia was presumed to have authored only one work, The Arrival and the...
Letters to Francesco Datini
The letters of Margherita Datini to her husband, “the merchant of Prato,” are virtually impossible to...
Love in the Mirror
A Bilingual Edition
Originally published in 1622, Love in the Mirror tells the unforgettable and path-breaking story of a passionate love...
In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
Letters on Natural Philosophy
The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her...
Convent Paradise
The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is...
Antisatire
In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni
Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and...
From Arcadia to Revolution
The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was...
Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples
Letters and Orations
This volume presents in translation 100 previously unknown letters of Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–1488), daughter of...
Letters to Her Sons, 1447–1470
The seventy-three surviving letters written by Florentine widow, Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi (c.1406–1471), to her distant sons first...
The Pleasant Nights
In Giovan Francesco Straparola’s The Pleasant Nights, a group of men and women gather together in a...
Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna
The Bolognese nun Diodata Malvasia was presumed to have authored only one work, The Arrival and the...
Letters to Francesco Datini
The letters of Margherita Datini to her husband, “the merchant of Prato,” are virtually impossible to...
Love in the Mirror
A Bilingual Edition
Originally published in 1622, Love in the Mirror tells the unforgettable and path-breaking story of a passionate love...