Letters and orations / Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portraitContent type: - text
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- Works. Selections. English. 2000
- Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Translations into English
- Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558 -- Correspondence
- Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Venice -- Translations into English
- Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources
- Humanists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
- Feminists -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
- Écrivains latins médiévaux et modernes -- Italie -- Venise -- Correspondance
- Italie -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1268-1559 -- Sources
- Humanistes -- Italie -- Venise -- Correspondance
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin
- Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Feminists
- Humanists
- Intellectual life
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Italy
- Italy -- Venice
- 1268-1559
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- PA8520.F392 A27 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
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Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; One: Women Patrons; Two: Family Members; Three: Princes and Courtiers; Four: Academics and Literary Friends; Five: Men of the Church; Six: Unknown Correspondents and Humanist Form Letters; Seven: The Public Lectures; Bibliography; Index.
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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