03852nam 2200793 a 450 991095931650332120200520144314.09786611125547978128112554512811255479780226239330022623933010.7208/9780226239330(CKB)1000000000409947(EBL)408354(OCoLC)476228649(SSID)ssj0000191521(PQKBManifestationID)11168208(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191521(PQKBWorkID)10184716(PQKB)11622621(MiAaPQ)EBC408354(DE-B1597)535524(OCoLC)1058278679(DE-B1597)9780226239330(Au-PeEL)EBL408354(CaPaEBR)ebr10210020(CaONFJC)MIL112554(Perlego)1972177(EXLCZ)99100000000040994719991004d2000 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrLetters and orations /Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20001 online resource (211 p.)Other voice in early modern EuropeDescription based upon print version of record.9780226239323 0226239322 9780226239316 0226239314 Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index.Front matter --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 --IndexBy 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. Her unique admittance into this community is also highlighted by her presence as the first independent woman writer in Italy to speak publicly and, more importantly, the first to address philosophical, political, and moral issues in her own voice. Her three public orations and almost all of her letters, translated into English, are presented here for the first time.Other voice in early modern Europe.Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)ItalyVeniceTranslations into EnglishAuthors, Latin (Medieval and modern)ItalyVeniceCorrespondenceHumanistsItalyVeniceCorrespondenceFeministsItalyVeniceCorrespondenceItalyIntellectual life1268-1559SourcesSpeeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)HumanistsFeminists875/.04Fedele Cassandra1465?-1558.1813201Robin Diana Maury158311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959316503321Letters and orations4366086UNINA