By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar

Co-published by: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collectio