During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, se

The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examin

The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Medite

Privileging both a transnational and a sociological approach, this volume explores the position of women in the early modern literary field, emphasising the int