With this translation of Marinella's Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please we can now read another crucial text from her extensive body of work, one that signals a radical ideological shift from her best known text, The Nobility and Excellence of Women; we can thus enjoy a fuller picture of the author and her opinions. Only three copies of Exhortations have been located in any library, and in the absence of a critical edition this translation will prove to be a point of reference for scholars and students alike. Benedetti's thorough introduction situates Marinella and her works within early seventeenth-century Venetian culture and the Counter-Reformation more broadly, in a way that is profoundly influenced by philology and is also theoretically sound.
-Maria Galli Stampino
Associate Professor of French and Italian
University of Miami
- ISBN10 0772721149
- ISBN13 9780772721143
- Publish Date 1 January 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of Toronto Press
- Edition Critical ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 219
- Language English