Jewish poet and intellectual in seventeenth-century Venice
Subtitle: the works of Sarra Copia Sulam in verse and prose, along with writings of her contemporaries in her praise, condemnation, or defense
By: Sarra Copia Sulam ; edited and translated by Don Harrán.
Contributors: Harrán, Don.
Series: Other voice in early modern Europe; Other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago and London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780226779881; 9780226779898
Other titles: Jewish poet and intellectual in 17th century Venice; Jewish poet and intellectual in XVII century Venice
Work titles: Selections.
Description: The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?-41) opened her Venice home to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon. Don Harrán has collected all her surviving writings into this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-561) and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some text in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Sarra Copia and Ansaldo Cebà. Letters to Sarra Copia from her Christian correspondent Ansaldo Cebà (1618-22) ; Letter from Sarra Copia to Isabella della Tolfa (1623) ; References to Sarra Copia in a second collection of Ansaldo Cebà's Letters (1623); title: A Controversy on the immortality of the soul.  Letter from Baldassare Bonifaccio to Sarra Copia (end of 1619) ; Sarra Copia's letter in response (10 January 1620) ; Excerpts from Baldassare Bonifaccio's Discourse on the Immortality of the Soul (June 1621) ; Sarra Copia's Manifesto in self-defense (July 1621) ; Baldassare Bonifaccio's essay in rebuttal (August 1621) ; Portion of a letter by Baldassare Bonifaccio (December 1621); title: Notices from Parnassus. Notices from Parnassus (1626 or thereafter) ; Excerpts from Numidio Paluzzi's Rime, as edited by Alessandro Berardelli (1626) ; Letter by Angelico Aprosio (undated, though based on a report from 1637); title: Miscellanea. Dedication to Sarra Copia from Leon Modena's play Ester (1619) ; Two poems by Gabriele Zinano and a poem by Sarra Copia in response (probably 1622-23); Leon Modena's Epitaph for Sarra Copia's tombstone (1641).