LEADER 03709nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910817863503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-12554-7 010 $a9786611125547 010 $a0-226-23933-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226239330 035 $a(CKB)1000000000409947 035 $a(EBL)408354 035 $a(OCoLC)476228649 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168208 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184716 035 $a(PQKB)11622621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408354 035 $a(DE-B1597)535524 035 $a(OCoLC)1058278679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226239330 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210020 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112554 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000409947 100 $a19991004d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLetters and orations /$fCassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (211 p.) 225 1 $aOther voice in early modern Europe 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-23932-2 311 0 $a0-226-23931-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction to the Series --$tAcknowledgments --$tEditor's Introduction --$tOne. Women Patrons --$tTwo. Family Members --$tThree. Princes and Courtiers --$tFour. Academics and Literary Friends --$tFive. Men of the Church --$tSix. Unknown Correspondents and Humanist Form Letters --$tSeven. The Public Lectures --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBy the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the central, mediating role she occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. Her unique admittance into this community is also highlighted by her presence as the first independent woman writer in Italy to speak publicly and, more importantly, the first to address philosophical, political, and moral issues in her own voice. Her three public orations and almost all of her letters, translated into English, are presented here for the first time. 410 0$aOther voice in early modern Europe. 606 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)$zItaly$zVenice$vTranslations into English 606 $aAuthors, Latin (Medieval and modern)$zItaly$zVenice$vCorrespondence 606 $aHumanists$zItaly$zVenice$vCorrespondence 606 $aFeminists$zItaly$zVenice$vCorrespondence 607 $aItaly$xIntellectual life$y1268-1559$vSources 615 0$aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) 615 0$aAuthors, Latin (Medieval and modern) 615 0$aHumanists 615 0$aFeminists 676 $a875/.04 700 $aFedele$b Cassandra$f1465?-1558.$01628087 701 $aRobin$b Diana Maury$0158311 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817863503321 996 $aLetters and orations$93964978 997 $aUNINA