Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, Along with Writings of Her Contemporari

by Sarra Copia Sulam and Sara Copia Sullam

Book Overview

The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?-41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, was a unique figure in Italian cultural life, opening her home, in the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226779890
• ISBN13: 9780226779898
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"