Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. 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.
2. Record Number: 2984
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
Contributor(s):
Title : Woman, Space, and Renaissance Discourse [explores the landscape that Laura Cereta creates in her letters; also mentions Renaissance catalogs of famous women and Christine de Pizan's "Cité des dames" and her use of urban space].
Source: Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition.   Edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter .   State University of New York Press, 1997.  Pages 165 - 187.
Year of Publication: 1997.