Complete Writings
Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations
University of Chicago Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-226-59007-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-59008-0 | Electronic: 978-0-226-59009-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226590097.001.0001
Cloth: 978-0-226-59007-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-59008-0 | Electronic: 978-0-226-59009-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226590097.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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-Roman thought with biblical teachings. And striding across the stage in public, she lectured the Veronese citizenry on everything from history and religion to politics and morality. But the most influential of Nogarola's works was a performance piece, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in which she discussed the relative sinfulness of Adam and Eve—thereby opening up a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of woman and establishing herself as an important figure in Western intellectual history. This book will be a must read for teachers and students of Women's Studies as well as of Renaissance literature and history.
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-Roman thought with biblical teachings. And striding across the stage in public, she lectured the Veronese citizenry on everything from history and religion to politics and morality. But the most influential of Nogarola's works was a performance piece, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in which she discussed the relative sinfulness of Adam and Eve—thereby opening up a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of woman and establishing herself as an important figure in Western intellectual history. This book will be a must read for teachers and students of Women's Studies as well as of Renaissance literature and history.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Margaret L. King is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Diana Robin is a professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico.
Diana Robin is a professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Editors’ Introduction
Volume Editors’ Introduction
Volume Editors’ Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Kin, Friends, and Books
Chapter 2: Guarino’s Circle
Chapter 3: Venice and Beyond
Chapter 4: Damiano
Chapter 5: The Book-Lined Cell
Chapter 6: Foscarini
Chapter 7: The Great Gender Debate
Chapter 8: The Black Swan
Chapter 9: Pope Pius II and the Congress of Mantua
Chapter 10: The Consolation for Marcello and the Friuli Connection
Appendices
Series Editors’ Bibliography
Index