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  • The Merits of Women

    Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

    "Among the great classics of early feminist thought . . . challenging, witty . . . a sometimes startlingly original discussion of women's status." — Literary HubYou would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man . . .Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps . . .Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Leer más

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    A Cultural History

    de Virginia Cox ...
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this magisterial study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. Her lucid and absorbing book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, as well as histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy. Alongside towering ... Leer más

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  • Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American PublishersThis is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women’s writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth ... Leer más

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  • Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance

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    Bilingual, annotated edition of more than 200 poems by Italian Renaissance women, many of which have never before been published in English.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceLyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this period to give a full representation of the richness and diversity of their output. Although familiar authors ... Leer más

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    de Virginia Cox ...
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  • Vittoria Colonna

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    Edición de Virginia Cox, Shannon McHugh ...
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    This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the Italian Reform movement. Until recently best known for her close spiritual friendship with Michelangelo, she is increasingly recognized as a powerful and distinctive poetic voice, a cultural and ... Leer más

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  • A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance

    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a “democratic laboratory” in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement known as humanism, which spread throughout Europe and ... Leer más

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