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"The God of Love's Letter" and "The Tale of the Rose" A Bilingual Edition. With Jean Gerson, "A Poem on Man and Woman," Translated from the Latin by Thomas O'Donnell
ISBN: PB: 9781649590060, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, July 2021
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Christine de Pizan was born in Italy and moved to the French court of Charles V when she was four years old. She led a life of learning, stimulated by her reading and by her drive to engage with the cultural and political issues of her day. As a youn...
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£34,00
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Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 "Rime"
ISBN: PB: 9781649590145, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
206 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates
Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of th...
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Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
ISBN: HB: 9781649590206, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
492 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 19 halftones
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulating...
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£77,00
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Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle
ISBN: PB: 9781649590121, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
414 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones
Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As "the Star of Utrecht", she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learn...
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£53,00
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Letters from Spain A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court
ISBN: PB: 9781649590107, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
98 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates
Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed by King Louis XIV, and she traveled internationally to accompany her ambassador husband, playing significant diplomatic roles at the court of...
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£34,00
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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...
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£93,00
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Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones
Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...
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£44,00
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs
These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...
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£56,00
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