Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /

This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons fo...

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Main Author: Cox, Virginia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Summary:This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 464 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-446) and index.
ISBN:9780801895432
080189543X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.