Letters and orations

Letters and orations

by Fedele, Cassandra

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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 th…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Letters and orations / Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin.

Summary

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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2000.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : : portrait

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226239330, 0226239330, 9780226239316, 0226239314, 1281125547, 9781281125545, 9786611125547, 661112554X
  • DOI:10.7208/9780226239330
  • oclc:ocn183399730
  • LC Classification:PA8520.F392
  • Dewey Decimal:875/.04

Table of Contents

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.

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Subjects

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) --… Écrivains latins médiévaux et modernes … Fedele, Cassandra Feminists Feminists -- Correspondence. -- Italy FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin Humanistes -- Correspondance. -- Italie Humanists Humanists -- Correspondence. -- Italy Intellectual life Italie -- Sources. -- Vie intellectuell… Italy Italy -- Sources. -- Intellectual life … Italy -- Venice Personal correspondence Sources Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medie… Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medie… Translations

Writers

Fedele, Cassandra Robin, Diana Maury

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