TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnesi,Maria Gaetana
AU  - Messbarger,Rebecca Marie
AU  - Findlen,Paula
ED  - Accademia di Padova.
TI  - The contest for knowledge: debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy 
T2  - Other voice in early modern Europe
SN  - 9780226010564
AV  - LC2122 .C66 2005eb
U1  - 370.82/0945/09033 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Education
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Éducation
KW  - Italie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Organizations & Institutions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Onderwijs
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Controversen
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola -- The Academy of the Ricovrati -- Aretafila Savini de' Rossi -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Diamante Medaglia Faini
N2  - At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women
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