Complete writings
Subtitle: letterbook, dialogue on Adam and Eve, orations
By: Isotta Nogarola ; edited and translated by Margaret L. King and Diana Robin.
Contributors: King, Margaret L., 1947-; Robin, Diana Maury.
Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Translations into English.; Nogarola, Isotta, 1418-1466 -- Correspondence.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Women -- Italy -- Verona -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources.; Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence.; Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence.; Women -- Italy -- Correspondence.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 -- Sources.; Verona (Italy) -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Translations into English.; Correspondence.; Sources.
Description: This volume presents English translations of all of Nogarola's extant work and highlights just how daring and original her convictions were. The collection will be of interest to teachers and students of women's tudies as well as of Renaissance literature and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kin, friends, and books (1434/37); title: Guarino's circle (1436/38); title: Venice and beyond (1438/39); title: Damiano (1438/41); title: The book-lined cell (1441/early 1450s); title: Ludovico (1451/66); title: The great gender debate (1451); title: The black swan : two orations for Ermolao Barbaro (1453); title: Pope Pius II and the Congress of Mantua (1459); title: The consolation for Marcello and the Friuli connection (1461); title: Appendix A : Concordance between Abel edition and the King/Robin translation; title: Appendix B : A chronological list of sources cited by Isotta Nogarola.