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  • Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Twenty Five Women Who Shaped the...
    Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era. Highlighted here are figures like Caterina Sforza, who defended her city against an invading army; Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan whose erotic verse enthralled Europe; Sofonisba ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Arcangela

    The Rebel Nun Who Defied the Vatican and Set the Renaissance World Ablaze

    by Meredith Ray, Lynn Westwater ...
    The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time.Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic nun whose controversial writings made her a literary sensation, only to then be completely sidelined ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Arcangela

    The Rebel Nun Who Defied the Vatican and Set the Renaissance World Ablaze

    by Meredith Ray, Lynn Westwater ...

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    The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time.Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic nun whose controversial writings made her a literary sensation, only to then be completely sidelined ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

    Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Redreaming the Renaissance

    Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

    by Douglas G. Biow, Alessandro Arcangeli, Suzanne Magnanini, Joanne M. Ferraro, Paula Findlen, Julia L. Hairston, Konrad Eisenbichler, Meredith K. Ray, Courtney Quaintance, Albert Russell Ascoli, Nicholas Terpstra, Massimo Rospocher ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series Book 17 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Gendering the Renaissance

    Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater, Anna Wainwright, Suzanne Magnanini, Nathalie Hester, Gabriella Zarri, Emanuela Zanotti Carney, Jennifer Haraguchi, Michael Sherberg0, Courtney Quaintance1 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Murder on a Stalled Train

    Or the Adventures of a Good Ole Country Boy

    by Berlin Ray Meredith ...
    Berlin Meredith invites you to read other stories and books published by him.Keep Looking Up by Berlin Meredith--publisher XlibrisMemories of My Life by Carol Meredith--publisher Xlibris ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Black Cat Weekly #68

    by N.M. Cedeño, Heather Critchlow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Hal Charles, Milton J. Davis, Lester del Rey, James Holding, Hal Meredith, Ray Bradbury ...
    Our 68th weekly issue has several holiday tales to spice up the season, including an original (“Merry Library Murder,” by N.M. Cedeño, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and some modern classics by Heather Critchlow (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) and one of my own favorite authors, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (she’s amazing!) Cynthia Ward has selected an exciting fantasy from ... Read more

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