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Selected Letters: Volume 54 (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series) - Softcover

D′este, Isabella; Shemek, Deanna

 
9780866985727: Selected Letters: Volume 54 (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0866985727 ISBN 13: 9780866985727
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US, 2017

Synopsis

Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga of Mantua, co-regent of the Gonzaga state, art collector, musician, diplomat, dynastic mother, traveler, reader, gardener, fashion innovator, and consummate politician, was also, as this volume attests, a prolific letter writer with a highly developed epistolary network. Presented here for the first time in any language is a representative selection from over 16,000 letters sent by Isabella to addressees across a wide social spectrum. Together, they paint a nuanced and colorful portrait of a brilliant and influential female protagonist of early modern European society.

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About the Author

Deanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she currently holds the Gary Licker Memorial Chair in Cowell College. She is author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (1998) and numerous other works on the Italian Renaissance. She co-directs the online project IDEA: Isabella d’Este Archive.

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Publisher
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0866985727
ISBN 13 
9780866985727
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
692