The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Aretafila Savini de' Rossi, Diamante Medaglia Faini, et al.

Book Overview

At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226010554
• ISBN13: 9780226010557
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.6"