Author: Cassandra Fedele
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226239314
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226239314
Letters and Orations (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
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. Get Letters and Orations literature books for free.
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 Check Letters and Orations our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.
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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 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
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