Letters to Her Sons, 1447–1470: Volume 46 (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series) - Softcover

Strozzi, Alessandra Maci; Bryce, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0866985484 ISBN 13: 9780866985482

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US, 2016

Synopsis

The seventy-three surviving letters written by Florentine widow, Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi (c.1406–1471), to her distant sons first appeared in print well over a century ago, but are here translated into English in their entirety for the first time. Whether for the professional historian or for the general reader interested in Renaissance Florence, they constitute a most precious testimony regarding both private and public life in the mid-fifteenth century, with themes ranging from familial relations, motherhood, marriage, and aspects of material culture to the harsh realities of political exile meted out by the Medici to their perceived opponents, these latter including her husband and, subsequently, her sons.

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About the Author

Judith Bryce is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol, UK. She has published on mid-sixteenth-century Florentine cultural history (including a monograph on Cosimo Bartoli), and on modern Italian literature (for instance, Dacia Maraini). Her more recent focus has, however, been on aspects of gender and culture in mid-to-late fifteenth-century Florence. Her publications in this area include studies of Antonia Pulci, Ginevra de’ Benci, Dada degli Adimari, and Lorenzo de’ Medici’s relations with Ippolita Sforza. She is a former editor of Italian Studies and a former chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0866985484
• ISBN 13: 9780866985482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294