Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
by Stephanie H Jed
Category: Literary Criticism

"A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism; or the reception and continued transmission of humanist ideology in the U.S. today ; and of a significant but neglected text on Lucretia by Coluccio Salutati .... - Margaret W. Ferguson (back cover).