The contest for knowledge
Subtitle: debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy
By: Maria Gaetana Agnesi ... [et al.] and the Accademia de' ricovrati ; edited and translated by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen ; with an introduction by Rebecca Messbarger
Contributors: Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 1718-1799; Messbarger, Rebecca Marie; Findlen, Paula; Accademia di Padova
Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Women -- Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources; Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; Education -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century -- Sources; Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola; title: The Academy of the Ricovrati; title: Aretafila Savini de' Rossi; title: Maria Gaetana Agnesi; title: Diamante Medaglia Faini