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1. Record Number: 5452
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Title : Transformations of the "buona Gualdrada" Legend from Boccaccio to Vasari: A Study in the Politics of Florentine Narrative [the story was told that Gualdrada's father offered to order her to kiss the visiting Emperor Otho IV; she refused indignantly and reminded her father of his responsibilities to make a good marriage for her; for Boccaccio Gualdrada's act is a symbol of republican virtue, while for Vasari Gualdrada represents contemporary Florence and Cosimo de Medici, resisting the influence of Emperor Charles V].
Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000.  Pages 401 - 420.
Year of Publication: 2000.
2. Record Number: 5451
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
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Title : Humanism and Feminism in Laura Cereta's Public Letters [the author considers six epistolary essays: "De amicitia" ("On Friendship"), "De adventu Turchorum" ("On the Coming of the Turks"), "Topographia et Epicuri defensio" ("A Topography and a Defence of Epicurus"), "De falsa delectatione vitae privatae admonitio" ("An Admonition Against the False Pleasure of the Solitary Life"), "De subeundo maritali iugo iudicium" ("An Opinion on Entering into the Bond of Matrimony"), and "De liberali mulierum institutione defensio" ("In Defense of a Liberal Education for Women")].
Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000.  Pages 368 - 384.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 5449
Author(s): Ajmar, Marta.
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Title : Exemplary Women in Renaissance Italy: Ambivalent Models of Behaviour? [the author argues that exemplary women from the classical past and from the ranks of the saints often embodied values that were more advanced than those in Italian Renaissance society; figures like Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus renowned for her eloquence, were reinterpreted to emphasize her domestic and maternal strengths rather than her public skills in oratory; the author concludes, "The consideration of exemplary women actually enlarged the boundaries of the Renaissance notion of woman and generated a reappraisal of a woman's capacity for attaining virtue--but not her status or her role in society." (Page 260)].
Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000.  Pages 244 - 264.
Year of Publication: 2000.
4. Record Number: 8868
Author(s): Taylor, Steven M.
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Title : Martin Le Franc's Rehabilitation of Notorious Women: The Case of Pope Joan [The author argues that Martin Le Franc worked to counter misogynous writings by speaking in defense of women like Pope Joan who had been cast as figures of wickedness. Le Franc's method, using a debate format, was to 1) emphasize her good characteristics, 2) argue that men led her into trouble, and 3) point to men who had the same weakness, but to a much greater degree. The Appendix presents the medieval French text from the "Champion des Dames," Book IV, Octaves 490-507. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 19., ( 1992):  Pages 261 - 278.
Year of Publication: 1992.