Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy

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University of Chicago Press, 2007 - 365 pagine

Even the most comprehensive Renaissance histories have neglected the vibrant groups of women writers that emerged in cities across Italy during the mid-1500s—and the thriving network of printers, publishers, and agents that specialized in producing and selling their books. In Publishing Women, Diana Robin finally brings to life this story of women’s cultural and intellectual leadership in early modern Italy, illuminating the factors behind—and the significance of—their sudden dominance.

Focusing on the collective publication process, Robin portrays communities in Naples, Venice, Rome, Siena, and Florence, where women engaged in activities that ranged from establishing literary salons to promoting religious reform. Her innovative cultural history considers the significant roles these women played in tandem with men, rather than separated from them. In doing so, it collapses the borders between women’s history, Renaissance and Reformation studies, and book history to evoke a historical moment that catapulted women’s writings and women-sponsored books into the public sphere for the first time anywhere in Europe.

 

Sommario

1 Ischia and the Birth of a Salon
1
The Publication of Two Salons
41
The Salt War Letters of Vittoria Colonna
79
The Temples of Giovanna dAragona
102
5 Laudomia Forteguerris Canzoniere and the Fall of Siena
124
Intimate Dialogues and the End of the Reform Movement
160
Epilogue
199
The Giolito Poetry Anthology Series Titles Printers Editors Dedicatees Poets in Editions
205
15451560
219
Appendix C Chronology of Events
243
Appendix D BiographicalBibliographical Index of Authors Patrons Popes
256
Notes
269
Bibliography
331
Index
345
Copyright

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Informazioni sull'autore (2007)

Diana Robin is professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico and a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library. She has written, edited, and translated several books, most recently Isotta Nogarola’s Complete Writings, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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