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Complete writings : letterbook, dialogue on Adam and Eve, orations

Renowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated republic of letters, Nogarola served as a crucial role model for generations of aspiring female artists and writers. This volume presents English translations of all of Nogarola's extant works and highlights just how daring and original her convictions were. In her letters and orations, Nogarola elegantly synthesized Greco-
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2004
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Kin, friends, and books (1434/37)
Guarino's circle (1436/38)
Venice and beyond (1438/39)
Damiano (1438/41)
The book-lined cell (1441/early 1450s)
Ludovico (1451/66)
The great gender debate (1451)
The black swan : two orations for Ermolao Barbaro (1453)
Pope Pius II and the Congress of Mantua (1459)
The consolation for Marcello and the Friuli connection (1461)
Appendix A : Concordance between Abel edition and the King/Robin translation
Appendix B : A chronological list of sources cited by Isotta Nogarola
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