Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

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Meredith K. Ray is Elias Ahuja Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. Her books include Margherita Sarrocchis Letters to Galileo: Astronomy Astrology and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy and Writing Gender in Womens Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance. Her translations include Machiavelli: Political Historical and Literary Writings co-edited with Mark Jurdjevic and with Lynn Lara Westwater Arcangela Tarabottis Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise. Lynn Lara Westwater is a professor of Italian at The George Washington University. Her books include Sarra Copia Sulam: A Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice; with Meredith K. Ray critical editions of Arcangela Tarabottis Letters Familiar and Formal and Convent Paradise; and with Diana Robin a critical edition of Ippolita Sforzas writing titled Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations.