Letters and Orations

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Cassandra Fedele, Diana Robin, Diana Robin

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Italian

Chicago University Press
01 June 2000

Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; European history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series

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. 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.

By: Cassandra Fedele
Translated by: Diana Robin, Diana Robin
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 2000
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9780226239323
ISBN 10: 0226239322
Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Pages: 211
Publication Date: 01 June 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diana Robin is professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico and a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library. She has written, edited, and translated several books, most recently Isotta Nogarola's Complete Writings, also published by the University of Chicago Press.