Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781649590121
Subjects: Germanic literature
Description: "This volume presents in translation a remarkable run of the correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678), covering almost four decades of her life, from 1631 to 1669. Largely unpublished, these manuscript letters and poems to and from her mentor, Andre  Rivet (1572-1651), and other members of her circle show how deeply engaged and respected she was in the traditionally male Latin world of the Republic of Letters"--