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Pages: 708
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This book contains Letters from 1546 to 1577. Includes Introductions, Endnotes, Biographical Sketches and Index.
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Authors: Gaspara Stampa
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Gaspara Stampa was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, but her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in
A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex
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Pages: 413
Authors: Gabrielle Suchon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-det
Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice
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Authors: Sarra Copia Sulam
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by
Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century