![]() Our growing familiarity with the works of various sixteenth-century women writers in Italy invites inevitable comparisons of their style and content. ![]() This project nicely complements Rosenthal's earlier book, The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (U of Chicago P, 1992), a study of Franco's life and social milieu.Īlthough the present volume of Franco's writings is a carefully done contribution to the by now healthy body of scholarship on Renaissance women writers, the reader remains a bit disappointed in the content of the letters and poems themselves. In the case of the hard-to-obtain poems, the volume includes transcriptions of the complete Italian texts with facing translations. King and Albert Rabil, Jr., dedicated to the writings of Renaissance proto-feminists, this volume makes fifteen letters and all the poems of Veronica Franco (1546-91) accessible to modern readers and students of women's history via English translation. ![]() 300.Īnother in the fine series, edited by Margaret L. ![]()
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