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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...

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1. Verfasser: Fedele, Cassandra, 1465?-1558
Weitere Verfasser: Robin, Diana Maury
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Latin
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Schriftenreihe:Other voice in early modern Europe.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portrait
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
ISBN:9780226239330
0226239330
9780226239316
0226239314
1281125547
9781281125545
9786611125547
661112554X

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