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  • Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Twenty Five Women Who Shaped the...
    Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era. Highlighted here are figures like Caterina Sforza, who defended her city against an invading army; Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan whose erotic verse enthralled Europe; Sofonisba ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Redreaming the Renaissance

    Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

    by Douglas G. Biow, Alessandro Arcangeli, Suzanne Magnanini, Joanne M. Ferraro, Paula Findlen, Julia L. Hairston, Konrad Eisenbichler, Meredith K. Ray, Courtney Quaintance, Albert Russell Ascoli, Nicholas Terpstra, Massimo Rospocher ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Gendering the Renaissance

    Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater, Anna Wainwright, Suzanne Magnanini, Nathalie Hester, Gabriella Zarri, Emanuela Zanotti Carney, Jennifer Haraguchi, Michael Sherberg0, Courtney Quaintance1 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

    Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series Book 17 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • A Mattress Maker’s Daughter

    The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza

    by Brendan Dooley ...
    Series Book 12 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    A Mattress Maker’s Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is don Giovanni de’ Medici, son of the ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society

    by Letizia Panizza ...
    "An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Italy’s Eighteenth Century

    Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

    Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Catherine M. Sama ...
    In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici

    Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler ...
    When he suddenly came to power in Italy in 1537, the young Duke Cosimo I de' Medici amazed friends and foes alike with his ability to extricate himself from mortal danger, affirm his authority and revive a dying state. He doubled the size of his duchy and established a dynasty that ruled unchallenged for 200 years. This volume is the first book-length study in any language to approach the figure ... Read more

    $61.99 USD