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‘Scholarly Identity and Gender in the Respublica litteraria: The Cases of Luisa Sigea (1522-1560) and Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)’

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This essay aims to provoke a more critical analysis of women's scholarly contributions by identifying and explaining continuities and discontinuities in publishing strategies over time across borders. More specifically, it locates the publications of two notable cases, Luisa Sigea and Margaret Cavendish, within the larger context of premodern knowledge communities -- namely, by showing the conventional, rhetorical value of their works' paratextual and metadiscursive practices, including the use of gendered stances, in relation to classical and modern ones (i.e. the emphasis on an author's female gender served as a promotional point to target -- by identification, empathy, or curiosity -- various interpretive communities / reading markets). Ultimately, it argues that, as cultural products, Sigea and Cavendish's publications served various social needs, chiefly a scholarly one -- again, this collective, mixed-sex intent is reflected in the publications' constant interaction (i.e. adherence, re-adaptation) of traditional and modern conventions, male and female.
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Scholarly Identity and Gender in the Respublica
litteraria: The Cases of Luisa Sigea (1522–1560) and
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre
            
Respublica litteraria   
   
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           
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désespéréèé
appelé        
ààè î
          è
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-

         -
     


         

 De claris
mulieribus
       Etymologiae     
Etymologiae’s  editio princeps        -
     best-    
De stu-
diis et litteris  
  La Cité des dames
The Book of the City of Ladies
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   On Famous Women       
 Searching for Sappho. The Lost Songs and the World of the First Woman
Poet  Etimologías: edición bilingüe


A Companion to Isidore of Seville
Asian Journal of Language,
Literature and Culture Studies
      Epistola Leonardi Aretini ad Illustrem muli-
erem Baptistam de Malatestis, in litteris ac studiis humanitatis facundissima  
            
Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators
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Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance. Essays in Honor of Ronald G.
Witt 
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
        De compo-
sitione verborum        
      
  
     pseudo-
On the SublimeMarc-Catullus,
et in eum commentaries M. Antonii Mureti   -
    é   é    

 auctoritas       
Plantarum
libri sex     

    


-
  

      
Respublica litteraria
    On Literary Composition. Being the Greek Text of the De
Compositione Verborum (in Greek and English)
            
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon
of Renaissance Poetry
            
quarantacinque Donne Illustri antiche e modern

   Six Books of Plants       
Plantae
Plantarum libri duo    
 
Poemata latina: in quibus continentur, sex libri plantarum,
viz. duo Herbarum, Florum, Sylvarum, et unus miscellaneorum

              
Journal of European Studies
     De studdiis et litteris  Rhetorica  
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 
-
        -
      
          
          self-
-
            
    

1 Luisa Sigea (1522–1560): Scholarly Identity in the Sixteenth Century

      






        
    
          
     
        
            
          

   A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism    
   Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts     -
  Forms of Engagement. Women, Poetry, and Culture, 1640–1680 
 
     ó      
   
Women’s Writing
  Institutio Oratoria
    
 has 
Epistolario latinoorbalá
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       
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     
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       
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 
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
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-hand

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             
-
      
    
          
    -
   male-authored    

 CartasApuntes para una biblioteca de escritoras:
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
          
       
Abbatis et eruditae
 -
         
          
     
     


      
perspectiveRespublica litteraria



            
        
Il Cortegiano
    best-seller-
     
    
    
           
Gender and Reading.
Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts 
  Familiarum colloquiorum opus-
Colloquia
             
Erasmo
de Róterdam. Coloquios
              
 self-inscription     Lais    
             
Invention and Authorship in Medieval England
              Paratexts.
Thresholds of Interpretation
      
Acta Historica et Archeologica Mediaevalia
 The Concept of Woman. The Early Humanist Reformation

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
Rime de la Divina Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa di Pescara
          
-
           




self-    
Decamerone



par excellence-



          Phaedrus
     -
          

  The Book of the Courtier 
El canto de la décima Musa: poesías del
Renacimiento y el Barroco
 
 Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy. Making the Invisible
Visible through Art and Patronage
              
--Restoration  
   Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe
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 Sonnets for Michelangelo. A Bilingual Edition
              
RimeA Companion to Vittoria
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 Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
 The Biography of “the Idea of Literature”
 Phaedrus
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

   é 
íòólibAnthol
Sappho Pierÿs est Decima Garci-Soneto
   cima moradora del Parnaso 


          
       
lib.1. Anthol.. Sappho Pierÿs est Decima 
Tenth
dweller of the Parnassus          


           
   vir illustris
      
            -
-
       
       
            
-Women and Community
in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
 Lecciones solemnes a las obras de Luis de Gongora y Argote
-

Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
Roemers-
-
   

  
-
Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance, With a Critical Edition
of Petrarch’s “Letter to Posterity”    á é
Lope pintado por sí mismo: mito e imagen del autor en la poesía de Lope de Vega Carpio
Ben Jonson. A Literary Life
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre - 9789004507159
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         

é

      
-
        
Sintra
Sintra-


   

        
           
 

-in-    

Livro de moradia
latina


Le Livre des trois
vertus à l’enseignement des dames        
 
The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature
 é
éú -
íáMartíHistoria de la tolerancia en España

 Epistolario latino
   Women Latin Poets. Language, Gender, & Authority from Antiquity to the
Eighteenth Century
  ó  í      
Lemir
 í-
dráóInvestigaciones Históricas, Época Moderna y Contemporánea
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        
Theory Now: Journal of Literature, Critique and Thought-

Esther M. Villegas de la Torre - 9789004507159
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seventeenth-

         
         
         
          


O Espelho
de Cristina         
      -
         
     
Senatulus   
-


Duarum
virginum colloquium de vita aulica et privata

Phaedrus 

     

          

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   Vida de la Serenissima Infanta Doña Maria     

              
Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et
Renaissance
 Epistolario latinoVida
  Le Glorie inmortali á 
Dossiers Feministes
drá     óBoletín de la Real Academia de la Historia
The Concept of Woman
   O Livro das Tres Vertudes a Insinança das Damas  

 Familiarum colloquiorum
 Colloquium duarum virginumóó
é
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
          

Respublica litteraria



captatio benevolentiae 

auctoritas
   -
           
      woman author  
middle-class

   Chronici rerum memorabilium Hispaniae 


        á  
El Brocense-


     
          

        
à
ía como instrumento a través de las edades
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 éUn siciliano en la España de los Reyes Católicos: los
Epistolarum familiarum libri XVII de Lucio Marineo Sículoá
 
          
A Maturing Market. The Iberian Book World in the First Half of
the Seventeenth Century 

 The Invention of the Author. The ‘Privilegio di Stampa’ in Renaissance Venice

 The Emergence of the English Author. Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern
EnglandEpistolario latino
   Chronici rerum memorabilium Hispaniae  
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-
-driven  

 

-




          
é  
      

é-
ïé
-

De
vidua christiana
Poetica
El Brocense
  cur-
riculum vitae
           woman
 Les Tres-Merveilleuses Victoires des Femmes do Nouveau Monde, et com-
ment elles doibvent à tout le mon par raison commander, & même à ceulx qui auront la
Monarchie du Monde vieil    à  ë   ë 

 A devout
treatise upon the Pater Noster made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster
Erasmus Roterodamus and tourned in to englisshe by a yong vertuous and well lerned gen-
tylwoman of xix. yere of age      
r
   Rime di
Madonna Gaspara Stampa
 éEvvres de Lovïze Labé Lionnoize
 
in á   ó    Koinòs lógos:
homenaje al profesor José García López
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         
   all-   -three 
          
         



  ñ 
            
 
       

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life-úê
        


 ñí  -in-      
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
       
Le Vite
           
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Sintraé-


 Publishing Women. Salons, The Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-
Century Italy
     ó í    

 Epistolario latino
 á      
Maestros en la sombra: la otra cara del Museo del Prado
Le Glorie inmortali
   The Lives of the Artists       
Le Glorie inmortali
  The Biography of “the Idea of Literature”    El canto de la
décima Musa
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 é        


 
           

           
       
       
          
       
      
      


     


-
in-      
       

  

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2 Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673): Scholarly Identity in the
Seventeenth Century
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Respublica litteraria

tacinque Donne Illustri antiche e moderne  -
self-evident
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   
      
          
 Hispaniae Bibliotheca
       
   -    

  self-proclaimedunlearned    Vida   -
-
éLe Grand Dictionaire Historique
seventeenth-  
    é    De arcarnis Amoris & Veneris
            
De arcanis Amoris & Veneris     seventeenth-
Respublica litteraria 
             

    
   printer-

 Dell’Huomo di lettere difeso et emendato
  The Biography of “the Idea of Literature”  á  ó
Plaza universal de todas ciencias y artes: parte traduzida de Toscano
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   Hispaniae Bibliotheca  
       -
 : Journal of Translation and Interpretation 2
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 é Le Grand Dictionaire Historique, ov le Melange Curieux de l’Histoire Sacree
et Profane      -
í
óRELAT: Revista de Estudios Latinos
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 Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy  
óPhilosophia Antigua Poetica
  República literaria 

Historia. Empiricism and Erudition in Early
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Parti due       How
to



  


          

self-
         
    
     -
ethos
-
    
--



  locusself-
promotion
         

 The Man of Letters. Defended and Emended
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 
 Hombre de letras. Escrito en italiano […]
y aora nuevamente en castellano    é í 


 Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay
-
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 
  Republic of Women. Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century
El canto de la décima Musa
óStudia Aurea
 
  The Equality of the Sexes. Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century 
Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter: As They
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
   -
 


   
      
men
he-
 

        
-




   

           
-authored
           
Poemsand Fancies
    
De corpore politico



 The Nature of the Book. Print and Knowledge in the Making

         
       The Book Trade in Early Modern England. Practices,
Perceptions, Connections -
 
   
impressae--printers-in--modern--leuven-and-douai
   Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament   
Poems and Fancies
   De corpore politico, or The elements of the law, moral and politick with
discourses upon severall heads, as of [brace] the law of nature, oathes and covenants, sev-
eral kinds of government: with the changes and revolutions of them
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
De rerum natura       

Poems and Fancies    mid-seventeenth- 


self-
    
 The Animal Parliament
           
          
-
           Poems and
Fancies
-


          
duchess-

seventeenth-
         -
          
 
   

    Digital Cavendish Project   
-research-printers-
 Poems and Fancies
   Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653–1759    

 
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 Poems and Fancies
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  
   -   

nat-
urally
       

 
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  -in-   -
        
 
natural
 

 after--
    self-

         
    
  é -
          
       -

Abbatis et eruditae,-
 seventeenth-   

          Jonsonus Virbius
or, The Memorie of Ben Johnson Revived by the Friends of the Muses 
over-

 The Emergence of the English Author
 The Biography of “the Idea of Literature”
 Poems and Fancies
 -Women Poets of the English Civil War
 Poems and Fancies
   The Birth of Feminism. Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England

 Familiarum colloquiorum- Forms of Engagement. Women,
Poetry, and Culture, 1640–1680
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre - 9789004507159
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 
           
   


        seventeenth- 
      
-
  
        
          
      Rime Urania
     
-

     
-
      




         
     - Querelle des
femmesChaine of Pearle
      -
 The Animal Parliament         
 
  
Gentle-
 Poems and Fancies
             

 Poems and Fancies
 Medieval Theory of Authorship. Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle
Ages
 Poems and Fancies
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
   
í


      -

male-authored

novellaséá Orfeo en lengua castel-
lana   
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Poems and Fancies   
          
        
 letter-epistle         

-
-

natural
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
 
self-promotional

         
       

 Chaine of Pearle, Or a Memoriall of the peerles Graces, and Heroick Vertues
of Queene Elizabeth of Glorious Memory   
-head-street
-stone
 ééú
      -  Aphra Behn’s English
Feminism. Wit and Satire
 The Man of Letters
 Poems and Fancies
  Ben Jonson.
A Literary Life
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

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           
         
        

   

  -
           -



-
      
    
           rusticitas





But if you do, the matter is not great
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 Poems and Fancies
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   Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty 
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Ages
            é
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 
       
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But let my atoms to the learned go


Sociable Letters   
  
         
    




         


    
        
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
   
 
 
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-
ía de la naturaleza
del hombreseventeenth-
      É     La
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 
         
       
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

self-bio-

Hispaniae Bibliotheca
-


natural




   
  They are poor, dejected spirits that are not ambi-
tious of fame             


           
 self-    eruditae  
          
   

 New Philosophy of Human Nature: Neither Known to nor Attained
by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and Health
intró
  Renaissance and
Reformation  
-Representation  
Early Modern Women Journal Republic of Women
  The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley  

     The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish

 Republic
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

-
-

      
eruditae  

          
-

-

Poems and Fancies-

  -


           
       
            
         
 Familiarum colloquiorum       
 The Equality
of the Sexes. Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth CenturyThe
Man of Letters
 Familiarum colloquiorum
 
íHonesto y entretenido sarao (Primera y segunda
parteó
úóíCriticón
í
                 
      Agent of Change. Print Culture Studies After
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
 
Republic of Women
   -  -
Grossly
Material Things. Women and Book Production in Early Modern England  
-
         -

 Poems and Fancies
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        -
         
    Poems by
the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda:
to which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey & Horace, Tragedies; with sev-
eral other Translations out of French
  -
          
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

    
    
    
       

-
provenOrinda

    Poems and Fancies    commercial 
     -driven      
          

   The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age     
           
ó
The Imprint of Gender. Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance 

 -
 printer-publisher 
          
Katherine Philips. Form, Reception,
and Literary Contexts
   Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The
Matchless Orinda: to which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey & Horace, Tragedies; with
several other Translations out of French

         
      title-     
Erasmus, Man of Letters
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       
 -
  

  
-
     
       
  Bibliotheca Hispana Nova
 
ó
         

      
  
Gynaeceum Hispanae Minervae,
sive de gentis nostrae foeminis doctrina claris scriptorum-
 

3 Conclusions
  -
           
 -Women Poets of the English Civil War
 
        
   Early Modern Literary Studies
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 Bibliotheca Hispana, sive Hispanorum
-
          -
  
     
       
        
 -
-
AcadémieHommes illustres
Bilder-sal
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           -
          


      Toletana    
Newcastle         
self--


-

 
-

 

      materially    -

    -
     
      
          
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Dell’Huomo di lettere difeso et emendato Parti due. Del P. Daniello Bartoli
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  The Learned Man Defended and Reform’d. A Discourse of singular
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those two Ignorance and Vice. In two Parts
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  El hombre de letras. Escrito en italiano. Por el Padre Daniel Bartoli
de la Compañía de Iesvs, y traducido por diversos Autores, en Latin, Frances, Ingles,
Aleman, y Portugues. Y aora nvevamente en castellano

ç


  The Man of Letters. Defended and Emended  

The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. Or severall poems, com-
piles with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight […] 

De Studiis et Litteris
Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators
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  The Book of the Courtier      
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  Poems, and Fancies      

CCXI Sociable Letters

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Poems, or several Fancies in Verse: with the Animal Parliament in
Prose

 The World’s Olio      
   

Sociable LettersF
  Observations upon Experimental Philosophy: Abridged, with
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Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament
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  Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies. A Digital Critical
Edition2
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Rime de la Divina Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa di Pescara. Nuovamente
stampato con privilegio

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 
Sonnets for Michelangelo. A Bilingual Edition

Plantarum libri duo

Poemata latina: in quibus continentur, sex libri plantarum, viz. duo
Herbarum, Florum, Sylvarum, et unus miscellaneorum  

  Six Books of Plants       

  Observations on the 22. Stanza in the 9th Canto of the 2nd. Book of
Spencers Faery Queen. Full of excelent Notions concerning the Frame of Man, and
his rationall Soul     

Red-
   On Literary Composition. Being the Greek Text of the De
Compositione Verborum (in Greek and English)R
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Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime, et virtvosissime donne

A devout treatise upon the Pater Noster made fyrst in latyn by the
moost famous doctour mayster Erasmus Roterodamus and tourned in to englisshe by
a yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of xix. yere of age

De vidua christiana
Familiarum colloquiorum opus
Il merito delle donne
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   
The Equality of the Sexes. Three Feminist Texts of the
Seventeenth Century
   Etimologías: edición bilingüe    



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éInundacion Castalida de la Unica Poetisa, Musa Dezima,
Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz, Religiosa Professa en el Monasterio de San Geronimo de
la Imperial Ciudad de Mexico. Que en varios metros, idiomas, y estilos, fertiliza varios
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
assumptos con elegantes, sutiles, claros, ingeniosos, utiles versos: para la enseñanza,
recreo, y admiracion
 La nobiltà        
gli huomini. Discorso di Lucrezia Marinella. In due parti diviso  

MoréLe Grand Dictionaire Historique, ov le Melange Curieux de l’Histoire Sacree
et Profane
éEvvres de Lovïze Labé Lionnoize
Vida de la Serenissima Infanta Doña Maria   

 Lecciones solemnes a las obras de Luis de Gongora y
Argote
éáOrfeo en lengua castellana

Poems, By the Incomparable Mrs. K. P. 
DunstansFleet-street
  Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips,
The Matchless Orinda: to which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey & Horace,
Tragedies; with several other Translations out of French   
        

  Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus     

Philosophia Antigua Poetica
The Book of the City of LadiesR

La Cité des damesÉ
O Livro das Tres Vertudes a Insinança das Damas

Republic
Phaedrus
 Les Tres-Merveilleuses Victoires des Femmes do Nouveau Monde, et
comment elles doibvent à tout le mon par raison commander, & même à ceulx qui
auront la Monarchie du Monde vieilàë
ruë
  Chaine of Pearle, Or a Memoriall of the peerles Graces, and Heroick
Vertues of Queene Elizabeth of Glorious Memory
-head
-street-stone
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 
   Jonsonus Virbius or, The Memorie of Ben Johnson
Revived by the Friends of the Muses
     over-

The ‘Institutio Oratoria’, with an English Translation

      
quarantacinque Donne Illustri antiche e modern   

República literaria
         
alcanç  

      
alcanç  
Compuesta por doña Oliva Sabuco. Esta segunda impression va enmendada, y añadi-
das algunas cosas curiosas, y una Tabla
      
alcanç  
ç
    New Philosophy of Human Nature: Neither Known to nor
Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and
Healthintró
   Iacobi Salvatoris Murgensis Philosophi et Theologi Poetica
à
Hispaniae Bibliotheca

The learned maid; or, Whether a maid may be a scholar?: A
logick exercise. Written in latine by that Incomparable virgin Anna Maria à Schurman
of Vtrecht. With some epistles to the famous Gassendus and others

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and other
writings from her intellectual circle
             
The Equality of the Sexes. Three
Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century
Syntra Aloisiæ Sygeæ Toletanae, aliaque eiusdem, ac nonnul-
lorum praeterea doctorum virorum ad eandem Epigrammata: quibus accessit Pauli
III.P.M. epistola de singulari eius doctrina, ac ingenii praestantia.Tumulus eiusdem
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
ab Andrea Resendio, & Claudio Monsello concinnatusà 

Dialogue de Deux Jeunes Filles. Sur la Vie de Cour et la Vie de
Retraite (1552)
  Duarum virginum colloquium de vita aulica et privata
Apuntes para una biblioteca de escritoras: desde la formación
del lenguaje hasta nuestros días
CartasMApuntes para una biblio-
teca de escritoras: desde la formación del lenguaje hasta nuestros días

Epistolario latinoorbalá
Rime di Madonna Gaspara Stampa  

áóPlaza universal de todas ciencias y artes: parte traduzida
de Toscano
  Chronici rerum memorabilium Hispaniae  

The Lives of the Artists  

Laurel de Apolo, con otras rimasarreñ
The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania





íNovelas amorosas, y exemplares. Compuestas por Doña Maria
de Zayas y Sotomayor, natural de Madrid ç     ñ 

 í Parte segunda del sarao, y entretenimiento honesto, de doña
Maria de Zayas SotomayorÇç        
ñ
  í Honesto y entretenido sarao (Primera y segunda parte) 

Secondary Literature
          
       Early Modern
Literary Studies
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 
The Concept of Woman. The Early Humanist Reformation

            
Renaissance and Reformation2
éRí-
ñéM
del Renacimiento español  ó

-Aphra Behn’s English Feminism. Wit and Satire

óí
Lemir
            
The Seventeenth Century
M
GardnerThe Book Trade in Early Modern England. Practices,
Perceptions, Connections
       
Agent of Change. Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Gesnerus
áPuellae DoctaeDossiers Feministes

The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature

Féú
Cuadernos de Historia Moderna
Palgrave Advance in Renaissance Historiogra-
phy
   Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern
World
Torres  í   
catedrá   ó Investigaciones Históricas, Época Moderna y
Contemporánea
 Leer y oír: ensayos sobre la lectura en los Siglos de Oro 


óTiempos modernos

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        De studdiis et litteris 
Rhetorica2

MG
Katherine Philips. Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts
MR
Gender and
Reading. Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts
 M   R        

Exempla
GHistoria. Empiricism and Erudition
in Early Modern Europe
TRimeT
MA Companion to Vittoria Colonna

     Early Science and Medicine 

European Literature and Latin Middle AgesT

TLibros, lectores y lecturas: estudios sobre bibliotecas particulares españolas
del Siglo de Oro
RThe
Book History Reader
  The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish  

MBoccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature. Dante, Cavalcanti, and the
Authority of the Vernacular

-
Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance, With a
Critical Edition of Petrarch’s “Letter to Posterity”
M
English Literature Renaissance
Fish  Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

            
 -  -Restoration     
Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early
Modern Europe
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 
FreemanSearching for Sappho. The Lost Songs and the World of the First Woman Poet

FumaroliMThe Republic of Letters
GenetteGParatexts. Thresholds of Interpretation
Gilleir
  Gilleir          Women Writing Back.
Transnational Perspectives from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Era
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GreerGSlip-Shod Sibyls. Recognition, Rejection, and the Woman Poet
GrivaAsian
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies2

 Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance. Essays in Honor of
Ronald G. Witt
Erasmus, Man of Letters. The Construction of Charisma in Print

éUn siciliano en la España de los Reyes Católicos: los Epistolarum
familiarum libri XVII de Lucio Marineo Sículo
The Nature of the Book. Print and Knowledge in the Making
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Ben Jonson: A Literary Life

Digital Cavendish Project     
-research-printers-

 Fear A Companion to Isidore of Seville

              R 
Erasmo de Róterdam. Coloquios
From Mother to Daughter. Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames
des Roches
           
  -Representation Early
Modern Women Journal
 Maestre    í   Scholasticus Toletanus   
  ó RELAT: Revista de Estudios Latinos 

MarinoThe Biography of “the Idea of Literature” from Antiquity to the Baroque

McGannA Critique of Modern Textual Criticism
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
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Miert            
          Bibliothèque
d’Humanisme et Renaissance
Minnis  Medieval Theory of Authorship. Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later
Middle Ages
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
Maldonado     
   á M  ó       
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Criticism4
 M          
Women’s Writing2
M
Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy. Making the Invisible
Visible through Art and Patronage
TáóBoletín de la Real Academia
de la Historia
Republic of Women. Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century

  The Emergence of the English Author. Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early
Modern England
  Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty 
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
Gender & History
M       

RichardsonPrinting, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
          Journal of
European Studies
RiquerGrañMLas sabias mujeres:
educación, saber y autoría (siglos IIIXVII)
GarretasM
Acta Historica et Archeologica Mediaevalia2
Robin  Publishing Women. Salons, The Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
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RossThe Birth of Feminism. Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England

Ross-Women Poets of the English Civil War-
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Ross--
-Huntington Library Quarterly

Power in the Blood. Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern
Germany
áéLope pintado por sí mismo: mito e imagen del autor en la poesía de
Lope de Vega Carpio
-   
 Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde

-  Forms of Engagement. Women, Poetry, and Culture, 1640–1680
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á           
Maestros en la sombra: la otra cara del Museo del Prado

   The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age 

  Grossly Material Things. Women and Book Production in Early Modern
England
óí  Textos dispersos de autores españoles: impresos del Siglo de Oro 
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SKASE:
Journal of Translation and Interpretation2
 R          
- M  Guerson       Women and
Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Women Latin Poets. Language, Gender, & Authority from Antiquity to the
Eighteenth Century
 R          é
Ferná   -   Translation and the Book Trade in Early
Modern Europe
TrambaioliMóStudia Aurea
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 Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the
Canon of Renaissance Poetry
    Colloquium duarum virginum      ó
dialóéLetras huma-
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